Adventurers, it’s time for another Ancient Dungeon devlog discussing the next update that is rolling out on PSVR2, Quest, and PCVR! This one is packed with exciting new content, quality-of-life improvements, and of course, some classic bug fixes. This update is scheduled for release at the end of this month.

Let's dive into what is coming:

• One New Orb
  
• 11 New Relics - more ways to customize your runs!
  
• 10 new Insight Upgrades - Plus, a redesigned insight board to refine progression.

• Exploring Points of Interest - A new Layer of Adventure! This upcoming update brings Points of Interest (POIs)unique areas designed to add more variety, challenge, and intrigue to your dungeon runs!
  
  What are POIs?
  • These areas break up regular dungeon rooms with new enemies, semi-bosses, puzzles, or just better loot. Some are designed to test your skills, while others add fresh environmental storytelling to Ancient Dungeon.
    Examples of POI
    Lost Storage – A massive, cluttered room filled with crates and lost relics. This acts as a more rewarding item room replacement. Who knows what treasures (or dangers) lie within?
    Entangled Thicket – A twisting maze of vegetation and thorns. You’ll have to slash and carve your way through to escape! This replaces standard corridor and enemy rooms, adding a unique traversal challenge.
    These are just two examples, many more POI's await for you to discover!
• New Ethereal Heart types – More ways to manage health!
  
• New food types (yes, including CHEESE) - MOR snacks, I mean who doesn't like to eat?
  
• Autosaving during Dungeon Runs - No more lost progress mid-run!
  
• More Boss Room Layouts for The Beast's Cradle - Greater variety and fresh challenges!
  
• Enemy Bestiary - Learn more about the creatures lurking in the depths.
  
• Player Statistics - Track your Dungeon runs and flex your adventuring skills.
  

As always, a host of bug fixes and optimizations to improve your dungeon delving experience are packed in this upcoming update as well.

• A brand new weapon combo
  
• More cosmetics to personalize your adventurer!

This update is just the beginning of what’s to come. Let us know what you're most excited about!

Hey everyone!

This hotfix addresses some of the most reported bugs and issues from the past few weeks to improve your experience. We’re also hard at work on exciting new content, but as a little bonus, we’ve included a few new cosmetics in this update for you to enjoy. Thank you for your continued feedback and support!

Happy playing!

Changelog

• new multiplayer cosmetics: mustache, afro, ponytail, locs, slime hat
  
• added option to only allow players without mods to join your lobby
  
• fixed multiple generation softlock issues
  
• fixed two rooms in mines having a glitched ceiling
  
• fixed winged shoe not working over water and sludge pits
  
• fixed rotten slime particles sometimes spawning on wrong positions

Welcome to the final post about 2024, adventurers!

Our team of dungeoneers have been hard at work this year, and we hope you’ve enjoyed the results of all that effort. In addition to putting the final touches on multiplayer, this year has given adventurers new floors to explore, new monsters to smash, and new relics to discover! Who could ask for more than that?

What? You could? Oh, okay…well, in that case…

EVERYTHING WILL BE MORE, AND BETTER, AND GREAT IN 2025!!1!!111!!

pant pant...I really shouldn’t yell like that, my doctor says it’s bad for my blood pressure…anyway…

Here’s the sitch for 2025, friendos: new weapons, weapon skins, cosmetics, more insight upgrades, more floors, more relics–and possibly other things we’ll think of later! The Ancient Dungeon is a wild place!

Now, in all seriousness: thanks to you all for playing and enjoying our game. We’ve been at this for awhile, and it is the unending enthusiasm and love our players provide that keeps us motivated, happy, and eager to work everyday. We still have a ways to go before we hit the big 1.0, but we can’t wait to be there with you all.

Happy New Year, happy this year, and happy every year after!

Packed with new features, exciting reworks, and important fixes, this update is our way of taking your dungeon-diving experience to the next level.

• Added 13 new enemies across alternate floors.
  
• Introduced 6 new relics to discover and enhance your runs.
  
• Added 4 new milestones to unlock and test your skills.
  
• Included 2 new journal pages to uncover more lore.
  
• Added 1 new insight upgrade to expand your strategies.
  
• 2 new alternate floors: Explore the Noxious Sewers and Luminous Depths, each with unique challenges, enemies, and bosses.

• A new post-boss area lets you choose your next floor, offering more strategic control.
  
• Introduced 2 new bosses, each guarding the new alternate floors.

• Gloaming Mines overhaul: Every room has been redesigned for smoother exploration and gameplay.
  
• Sound adjustments: Updated volumes for enemies and objects for improved immersion.
  
• Reworked challenge room logic to prevent softlocks during runs.
  
• Savegame handling improvements to avoid rare save corruption issues.

• Fixed relic combination Innocence Mark + Glass Cannon killing players instantly.
  
• Fixed mod settings menu overflowing with content from different mods.
  
• Fixed black screens in multiplayer for some players.
  
• Fixed multiplayer disconnects after 5 minutes of playtime.
  
• Fixed dungeon generation issues in hard mode with large dungeons.
  
• Fixed ladder climbing issues for teleport movement.
  
• Fixed various typos across UI elements.
  
• Fixed some achievements not unlocking in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed key and coin pickup sounds in multiplayer.
  
• Adjusted prices and probabilities for many relics to make them more balanced.
  
• Added onObjectGrab event for modding purposes.
  
• Improved stability during the Beast fight.
  
• Fixed black screen issues when starting a run.
  
• Fixed an issue with Glittering Orb functionality.
  
• Various other stability improvements.

This update is packed with new content and improvements that make Ancient Dungeon better than ever. Share your thoughts in the comments, and let us know how your adventures unfold!

Thank you for your continued support, happy dungeon diving! 💚

Hey everyone, and welcome to our 16th development update, which will cover a lot!

Since the launch of Ancient Dungeon, multiple content updates have been released including:

1. Seals Souls Update
   
2. Insight Rework
   
3. New Relics
   
4. Expanded on Lore

We’ve also spent significant development time building much requested features like multiplayer and porting the game to other platforms so others can enjoy Ancient Dungeon!

Here’s a recap of all the progress we’ve made so far:

It's been a lot of time and a lot of work for our small dev team, but we're proud of what we've done. As you can see, we’ve spent a lot of time on the multiplayer update and OpenXR rework, which meant we didn’t have as much time to dedicate to new content.

With this milestone completed we’re excited to be moving our focus back to new content for the game! Players can expect an explosion of fun updates in the coming months! What sort of fun, you ask? Let's take a look...

In the last few weeks, with your feedback and suggestions we have planned out a rough structure on what a proper 1.0 release looks like. While this roadmap might change (as most of our plans do) it gives a general overview of what you can expect from us in the coming months.


Now If you’ve read our previous devlogs you know we talked about not introducing alternative floors, that was because of the time involved in creating them as well as them having the same difficulty as the base floor. The compromise we came up with was the Points of Interest system (POI), in which floors could create small variations inside of them to make each floor more unique.

During testing and design, we realized that while the approach made sense on paper, it felt too restrictive in practice and was difficult to design because each POI is only allowed to have a small number of rooms. The dungeons still felt too similar. The definition of a POI was too broad, ranging from special rooms to entire clusters, making it hard to define clearly. Some POIs were just special rooms with the same textures, while others looked like entirely different floors. Ultimately, we were unsatisfied with the current POI system and decided to break it up.

This is going to be done in two major ways:

Firstly – Points of Interests are going to be added to the game in the form of single rooms or small multi room areas. Examples of this can look like:

• A special type of shop that can appear instead of a normal shop
  
• A climbing challenge or puzzle room
  
• Rooms with a new type of enemy, mini-boss fight, or an NPC encounter

Additionally, POIs will be like the dungeon they are in, meaning they are unique to the dungeon you are currently exploring and look different as you traverse through the floors.

Secondly, we are adding multiple alternate floors to the current floor architecture. Be warned, these alternate floors will not be the same difficulty as their base counterparts. As you adventure in these dangerous alternate floors, you will find them more challenging. Fear not the base path will remain unchanged (Overgrown -> Infested -> Library -> Mines) for those that dare not take on this challenge. However, should you choose it, the further you get away from the base timeline, the more difficult the floors will get.

In this sense, the dungeon will be laid out like a triangle, the deeper you travel the more possibilities you have to explore brand new dungeons.

Please note, this visualization is subject to change and the number of floors have not been determined yet

While this means big changes, some aspects of the adventure will remain the same:

• Most alternate floors will not feature their own special boss, they will most likely feature a boss from the base floor with a variation in the boss mechanic to make them more unique and challenging
  
• While most alternate floors will have some new enemies, you’ll still encounter the creatures you’ve come to learn and love
  
• Base floors will remain available, but alternate floors will need to be unlocked

Are you excited? Well get ready to be even more excited with some sneak peeks into these strange worlds you’ll soon be adventuring in!

As many veteran adventurers are now aware, a terrible Beast lies in the lowest depths of the dungeon, a creature that doesn’t seem very interested in dying regardless of how much it’s hacked apart. Why? How? All will be made clear…

In addition to the new alternate floors, another floor beyond The Beast’s Cradle will be added, but will only be accessible when certain criteria are met. There, the true source and full history of the Ancient Dungeon will finally be revealed.

Our beloved local blacksmith has been stirring his forge embers for awhile now, but finally seems ready to get to work! A new weapon combo is coming! What is it? Well, tune into future devlogs to find out…(coquettish grin)

As it turns out, implementing multiplayer on the Quest platform was a lot of time and work, but it’s finally (mostly) stable, which means it’s time to give our PSVR2 some multiplayer love. That sounded weird, but you understand. This porting will be done as we develop new content. Ideally, we want to achieve parity across all platforms. This takes significant development cycles, so we appreciate your patience as we get this out to our PlayStation adventurers.

Some of you have already seen someone by the name of Rafi around. We are happy to announce, Rafi will be officially joining the team! Here’s a bit about Rafi:

Rafi was originally making ADVR mods like the mage class mod which helped him get into university for Animation. Grateful, Rafi wanted to give back and decided to join the team as our Level and Environment Artist. He is currently creating the visuals for the floors in the up-and-coming update. Please give a warm welcome to Rafi!


What are you excited about the most? Don’t see a feature on here that you’d like, make sure to suggest what you want to see in Ancient Dungeon!