Patch notes

Season 6 is off to a roaring start! This small patch polishes up a few visual hiccups spotted during launch week — no balance changes, just tidying.

Skara is a kobold pit fighter who lives for the roar of the crowd! Bleed for the show, climb the gladiator ranks, and fight beside her dragon kin.

Applied several missing tooltip updates. Fixed missing Bloodrage Axe, Living Staff, Lost Runeword, Hungering Ward functionality. Fixed several additional tooltip text issues.

A sweeping balance pass across Boons, Relics, shared items, and every hero — plus fixes for the gold chest popup, World's End, Sandbinder Shackles, and tooltip accuracy.

Added item grouping in Fight Statistics. Improved Gold, Emerald, Ruby, and Diamond chests. Various item fixes.

Multiple item fixes, including Vampire's Scepter (health steal no longer sticks around permanently), Magic Carpet, and Reinforced Mining Bag.

New minigame event: Backpack Blitz. Wild Garden improvements: clearer basket capacity, fewer misclicks. Item search now filters by tooltip terms like cleanse or inflict poison.

Multiple item fixes. Small balance update for new hero & others. More details in thread.

Fixed store redirection issues for users playing in Russian. Multiple item fixes. More details in thread.

Zahir is a cunning desert wanderer who trades, tricks, and twists fate to gain the upper hand! Wield cursed bargains, command sand and scarabs, and manipulate the flow of day and night.

Fixed that Lumber Jacked could not drop from Hob’s Planner’s Pack. New update available popup will now mention any ranked active gauntlet properly.

The Tenderizer: Level Bonus now triggers on hit, not on attack. Arrow Sheath: Improved tooltip description. Line Cook's Apron: Brightened color to stand out more against the Medium Bag.

Planting will now highlight another empty plot, instead of closing seed info. Added visual information if online time could not be retrieved.

Absorbers now show which specific items they've absorbed (if any) — click the Info button on the tooltip. Adjusted Visitor Fungus requirements.

Wild Garden - A new permanent meta game: plant seeds, tend to visitors, harvest resources, and boost growth with sunshine. Crafting Hammer now works on Absorbing items. Thai language support.

Bramblethorn Thicket Fern table for Brambles updated to more typical rarity distribution. Also added Wild Rose to the table. Cataclysm Harkon was doing too many Free Attacks.

Updated Leafing In A Hurry heist steps. Updated Lumber Jacked heist steps. Added Harkon Pets to the Pet Brawl event.

Fern is a joyous forest dryad who nurtures the woodland into a weapon! Command birds, tend plants, and play enchanted instruments and make your items bloom.

Updated a few Kragg item arts. Fatigue now deals exponential damage, and gets real mean at 100 seconds. Fixed stamina gain from items showing based on wrong setting.

Fixed several inventory and UI layout bugs. Fixed missing Name Styles in Leaderboards. Fixed Hero Chests not always paying out correctly.

New hero: Kragg the Snapping Monk emerges. New bonus Celeste skin: Voidflare (on level 10 in the hero pass). Random Hero selection bonus XP now grows by +5% per owned hero.

Fixed issues with evaluating and displaying Victory types. Resolved Valentine hearts being paid out incorrectly. Fixed UI issues with Unranked play.

Fixed purchase payout issues. Fixed issues with evaluating Flawless Victory from Extended Runs. Reaper's Judgement: fixed incorrect Soul count in tooltip.

Added a confirmation popup when buying items using Valentine Hearts. The Heart’s Day event now pays out 2→5 hearts per Gold Trophy. Crystal Trophies count double for Hearts → 10 per Crystal Trophy.

Daily Trophies count properly again. Improved connection for countries with access issues. Fixed Add Friend season challenge to complete properly.

Friends - Add your friends. Recruitment - Recruit new players to the game, make new friends, get rewards for their success.

Fixed auto-updated plugins that caused an instability in 2.2.0. Fixed a set of translation errors (tooltips literally saying Error! ).

Unity update should fix blinking and crash on startup on iOS. Limited offers no longer displays as free if they are not. Added a safety fix for an edgecase where users could be stuck in Boon tutorial.

Fixed a reward issue with some Season Quests.

Fixed rare faulty payout of store purchases. Fixed occasional freezing when tapping certain items while playing with non-English localization.

You can now export a build from the Game Overview screen. Coins for Gem offers in the store changed. Added more bell melodies.

New Crafting Hammer for instantly merging in the Shop for Gold It unlocks at player level 18. Hob’s first Heist in a Gauntlet is chosen from a selection of three in round 1.

Membership free rotation now works for HobGang Hob Gang.

Hob, Rob, and Nob disguise themselves as various characters and perform exciting heists on other heroes.

Happy Halloween! 🎃. Added absorb effect information in the tooltip detail info popup of absorbable items. Absorb effects are now discoverable.

Fixed edge case crash when starting a fight.

Added Silver Badge for Challenges Achievements. Fixed crash during Shop phase, caused by opponent database error. Fixed Capital Gains achievement tracking and reset the progress for everyone.

Added a button in manage online account to explicitly Sync Now when logged in to a cloud save service. Fixed crash when entering the shop in a run in certain conditions.

Added a new Mythic Banner reward for achieving Mythic rank with any Hero. Added several new achievements. Added a copy to clipboard in the fight log.

Damage blocked by Invulnerability now appears in the combat log.

Fixes critical error when opening Relic Bonus Chest and Event Chest. Trophy Chests from pre 1.0 now work (would have been lost).

Season 1: Harvest Festival. New hero: Pepper the Purrisian Chef. Boons.

Updated internal game engine for performance and stability. Fixed camera rendering issues on certain devices.

Fixed errors caused by Endless Riches. Fixed short ads paying out even if not shown. Improved Card Pack sale visuals to avoid misunderstandings concerning Hero ownership.

Previous effect: -3% healing and MaxHealth gain per stack. New effect: -1% healing and MaxHealth gain per stack and -1% CritChance per stack. Common 6 Coin.

Added floating text for badges on tap. Doubled the resolution of the badge icons. Ragnarok art resized to intended size.

Added 100+ Achievements. Added additional player stats. Added re-roll relics once for an ad.

Updated some utility plugins to improve app stability/performance

Fixed crash on startup for iOS15 devices. Eyeball: Now cleanses the player instead of opponent. Book of Everlasting Flame: Now counts burn applied to opponent correctly.

Reset cost of Relic upgrading to intended values. Soul and Static effects work properly again. Electric Crown: Static value in level bonus displays correctly now.

A fight is now divided into 4 times of day: Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Night. Potions now have a 0.4 Cooldown that starts when they trigger. Check your inbox in the coming days for a new colorful banner.

Fixed rare issue with Hero Path unlocking.

Joining discord via the game now gives you 1000 Coin. Updated Dorf’s banner to use correct image. Improved reliability of Hero deal purchasing.

Dorf items have been added to various spawn and event tables. Increased the Mining Relic multipliers 1,5,10 → 1,10, 25. Relics moved to Item Collection.

Fixed issue with Player Level and item migration. Fixed issue with Quest rerolling. Fixed Bucket of Nightmares tooltip.

Improved stat evaluation performance, eliminating freezes. Accuracy now applies properly. Dorf's recipe unlock order corrected.

New Hero: Dorf the Miner joins the Brawl on the 2nd of May. New Relics: Each hero now unlocks an additional shared relic upon reaching Diamond league.

Quest timers now work properly. Elemental Whetstone now applies CritChance as intended. Issue with Epic Cloud Save.

Fixed a couple of Quest bugs. Fixed that some users could not log in to CloudSave. Fixed some UI issues.

Added Fight Replay. Free Coins for Ad now scales with Area up to 1000 Coin (was 300). Free Gems for Ad now rewards 10 Gems.

Fixed message inbox not refreshing as intended. Fixed an issue where certain eggs weren't properly bee-having. Fixed issue with time tracking in Speed Brawl.

Fixed crash on iOS startup. Fixed issues with merge lines. Fixed events not including the extra life from hero level.

0-4 wins: No chest. 5-9 wins: Bronze Chest. 10-14 wins: Silver Chest.

Softlock when trying to find an opponent. Removing the online time dependency for certain features. GPG PC experience improved.

Tutorial. New hints added (and some old hints removed or reworked). New fight introduction sequence showing the two combatants before a fight starts.

Fixed Arcane Crystal not activating. Fixed Portable Siege Engine breaking if combined with Exhaustion Stone. Fixed empty bag stars only counting one per item.

Corrected the level bonus on Harkon’s War Drum. Exhaustion Stone now properly activates on fatigue ticks. Grape Burst now properly activates when its ability ticks.

Fixed issue where cloudsave would not keep unlocked relics. Added a fallback for users who could not retrieve server time. Changed being able to get Pickaxes from Event chests.

Fixed a few places the game could hang in the menu. Fixed tooltip for various items. Spiked Whip now takes credit for applying thorns from its own ability.

Relics: A new type of item is uncovered. On round 4, you are presented with a choice of the relics you own to help your build. Discover new relics and improve them by mining for more.

Neptune’s Wrath no longer interrupts all other On shop entered-effects. Added missing Star icon to Graveyard Soil’s tooltip.

New Hero: Morrow the Dredger will dock in the harbor on the 31st of January. The fifth button is finally revealed - Events! The first event is already started, and more will release regularly.

Fixed issue where a user could be stuck in attempting to log in to cloud (Error code RERE4).

Fixed a crash in Hero Selection. Added missing description of the new “Use Mana” effect on the item’s tooltip. Fixed issue that would freeze the game when triggering the random damage effects.

Added Game Center / iCloud for iOS. Added x-mas cheer. Improved rank gains for Diamond and above rankings.

Fixed Login to Cloud on iOS. Fixed sound playing on startup despite being muted. Fixed for initial inventory save.

Daily deal rerolls added. Confirmation when buying daily deal. Volume slider for Hero Voices.

Banish overlay getting strange input errors. Ambience sound restarting unexpectedly. A rare error where the quest system could cause the game to hang.

New Hero: Celeste, the Storm Unleashed releases on December 2nd. Item Banish: unlocked through Player levels, this allows you to remove items from the shop pool for the rest of the run.

Fixed a critical bug with item rarity changes. Reduced graphics system crashes. Fixed items merging incorrectly after a fight.

100+ item changes. Opponent Preview added. Daily Deals added.

Minor bugfixes & tweaks.

Player XP wouldn’t calculate correctly. Chests would sometimes pay out weird values. Buyback could get stuck.

Level up chest getting stuck at level 17. Soul indicators for Reaper’s Judgment. Some items tried to steal stamina and failed.

Added new Hero: Enoch the Harvestman. Added new debuff: Curse. Reduces all healing and max health gain by 3% per stack. Added 46 new items with Enoch.

Fixed broken French, Spanish, and Polish translations. Fixed delayed log-in rewards.

Fixed tooltip layering issue. Fixed missing tooltips from Knight's Aegis and Knight's Sigil. Fixed various localization issues.

Added visual indicator for “After X seconds” items. “After X seconds” effects are now affected by speed ( Chill, Haste, Fanny Pack etc). Added mute functionality for audio settings (tap the icons).

Auto-select the device language for new users. Fixed issue when viewing tooltips of Rare items while using French localization.

Added Rank progress to Completed Run screen. Improved Fight Log (now shows Stunned (Source), Item Stunned (source), prevented stun and more).

Fixes issues with Bag mode that could be exploited. Small UI fixes.

Item cards beyond Max level are now converted to coins or gems depending on their rarity. We have added rewards when you reach certain ranks with heroes.

Luck +5 → +3% Accuracy. Blind -5 → -3% Accuracy. Haste +2 → +1% Speed.

Coin purchases now increased to align better with chest purchases. Combat log visually overhauled. Additional information is logged in the combat log.

Added sound effects to more events in the game. Improved sound effects in the menus. Added membership subscription to remove ads and gain perks.

Added new hero: Buzz the Apiarist Extraordinaire. Added Tools filter to the item overview. Added 5 additional areas.

Removed Chest related quests. Added more variety in quests. Added various anti-cheat and anti-modding tools.

Added music for combat and menu. Added a basic pass of sound effects (more to come). Golden Clover.

A Shared option for item hero filters. Draggable tooltip in shop and combat. Shovel Price 4 → 8.

Game Overview popup (tap the hero portraIt in the shopping phase). Added a Hero Levels reward overview. Added celebrations for quests rewarding cards.

Adjusted gold amounts on the paid Chests to give out a more fitting amount of Coins. (up to 3x more). Added text-indicator when damage is prevented. Vanguard Belt.

Added Levels for all items. Added Purchasable Chests. Added Double Hero XP for a rewarded ad.

Added floating text when an item generates gold. Added indicator when a pet is stunned. Added item levels for pets.

Large Water Potion. Steel Bar. Bloodthorn.

A bug where when you buy a hero pack, the hero would be unlocked but levels, coins, and gems would not be paid out.

Switched Searing Wand and Wicked Stick unlock order. Stamina cost: 1.2 → 1.45. Cooldown 4.2 → 3.4.

2 new wands for Chana’s item pool. 9 new Unique items. Weapon tooltip now shows cooldown with 2 digits.

Thank you to all the kind people who report bugs on our Discord. You help make Backpack Brawl the best game it can be.

Added Unique items, available after 8 rounds.

Shop now won’t show the same items you just rerolled away from. New Combination: Heater Shield + Gold Bar = Gothic Shield. New art.

New Hero - Nymphedora the Marksman. Progress saving: Gauntlet progress is saved between sessions, so you can put your phone away and continue later. Haptics/Vibration has been added to the game.

The weekend fix it all update that became the baseline going forward — item momentum, community links, and a great heap of stability fixes.