The physics-based action roguelite Noita gets more updates in April, which break save games for previous versions. Fortunately a beta branch on Steam allows players to wrap things up with a bow on top, before embarking on a fresh run.

This is a compilation of all the rather extensive patch notes detailing new features, bug fixes, and added modding capabilities, in descending order, from latest to oldest:

UPDATED April 30

BUGFIXES – APR 30 2024

Hauskaa vappua! Here's some bug fixes and small balance tweaks to the Epilogue 2 update.

GENERAL

UPDATE: Tapion vasalli is a little tamer now

BUG FIXES

• BUGFIX: UI - Lengthy item names (i.e. complex potions) would leak outside the info box

• BUGFIX: Performance - melted plastic in huge quantaties caused performance problems

• BUGFIX: Fungal Shift - fungal shifting into a rare material caused the game to crash

• BUGFIX: Rare crash caused by tracking biomes (Thank you Dexter Castor Döpping)

• BUGFIX: Game could crash when killing a Kummitus with a lot of HP

• BUGFIX: Henkevä potu is no longer a homing target when held in hand

• BUGFIX: Player could be deleted when traveling back and forth extreme distances instantly

• BUGFIX: Unkilled Kivi caused stain problems

• BUGFIX: Soft lock could occur when ending the game underground with a large number of orbs

• BUGFIX: Fixed several enemy perks being broken in Nightmare Mode (huge thanks to pudy248 for the fixed code!)

• BUGFIX: Extra Life perk now changes the icon to indicate when it has been spent

• BUGFIX: Deadly heal should behave more nicely now

MODDING

• MODDING: Lua - added CellFactory_HasTag

• MODDING: GameEffectComponent - mIsExtension being false could crash the game

• MODDING: BossHealthBarComponent added - the new healthbar behavior is moved to here

• MODDING: MagicNumber BUGFIX_NEVER_DEFAULT_SERIALIZE_PLAYER added to control how player entity is serialized

• MODDING: -enable_unsafe_paths command argument added, it allows the game to access all files on your hard drives

• MODDING: -enable_recording_stuff command argument added, allows debug recording tools to be used

Noita Epilogue 2 Update April 8

Noita Epilogue 2 Update is now available. To celebrate the update, Noita is 60% off at Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita

This update includes a ton of new things, like new spells, new enemies, new bosses, a new area and new secrets. There's also a bunch of tweaks, updates and bug fixes.

Unfortunately your old save games won't survive the update. But there is now a new Steam beta branch called "update_20240214". It will allow you to finish your run with the old version of Noita.

GENERAL

• FEATURE: Spell - Sparkly bounce

• FEATURE: Spell - Lightning bounce

• FEATURE: Spell - Vacuum bounce

• FEATURE: Spell - Null shot

• FEATURE: Spell - Inner spell

• FEATURE: Spell - Giga white hole

• FEATURE: Spell - True orbit

• FEATURE: Spell - Hookbolt

• FEATURE: Spell - Anti homing

• FEATURE: Spell - Holy lance

• FEATURE: Added 8 modifier spells

• FEATURE: Added 6 new enemies

• FEATURE: Added 6 new spells

• FEATURE: Added 3 new secret spells

• FEATURE: Added new rare materials

• FEATURE: Added chemical reactions

• FEATURE: Added new small biome

• FEATURE: Item - Utility box

• FEATURE: Potion reactions

• FEATURE: Audio is muted when unfocusing the game if "Pause the game when unfocused" is On

• FEATURE: Amazing golden spell

• FEATURE: 3 new bossfights

• FEATURE: Added a new creature

• FEATURE: New materials and reactions

• FEATURE: New secret quest

• FEATURE: Added a new easter egg

• UPDATE: Dupe around and find out

• UPDATE: Better interaction with No Wand Tinkering and Tinker With Wands Everywhere perks

• UPDATE: Lukki Minion is slightly more powerful

• UPDATE: Spells can now be dropped from inventory at all times

• UPDATE: Spell drop rates rebalanced

• UPDATE: Explosive bounce's radius increased

• UPDATE: Shiny Orb is now more lucrative

• UPDATE: Moved a boss into a slightly more accessible spot

• UPDATE: Adjusted various spell mana costs and prices

• UPDATE: Adjusted weakness modifiers

• UPDATE: Updated the look of the Hiisi Alchemist's potions

• UPDATE: Potion content percentages are displayed now (Thank you Evaisa)

• UPDATE: Vomiting now requires eating a bit more nasty materials

• UPDATE: Buffed Vampirism

• UPDATE: A little surprise for the turophiles

• UPDATE: Audio - new sounds for [REDACTED], glue, eldritch portal, freezing gaze, barrier & wall spells

• UPDATE: Audio - bzzzt

• UPDATE: Audio - new sound for [REDACTED]

• UPDATE: Audio - new music for a few side areas

• UPDATE: Powder pouches have a new functionality

• UPDATE: New enemies show their statuses in the UI

• UPDATE: Visual, audio and other fx when moving very fast

• UPDATE: Tele bolt resets caster's vertical velocity

• UPDATE: Less harsh sound for tele bolt for more pleasant tele spamming experience

• UPDATE: Improved camera tracking when moving fast

• UPDATE: Lukki Minion should no longer be killable to make it more useful

• UPDATE: Optimized file system performance when using mods

• UPDATE: Optimized performance of some game effect queries in various systems

• UPDATE: All bosses use final boss style health bars

• UPDATE: Added up to date localizations

BUG FIXES

• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - the boss arena and orb rooms could be overwritten

• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - Orbs should now drop hearts even if the spell is unlocked

• BUGFIX: Nightmare mode - enemies no longer spawn with Attract Gold perk

• BUGFIX: Permanent polymorph is permanent

• BUGFIX: Carrying 5th wand by frame perfect swapping is fixed

• BUGFIX: Rare crash when enemy was converted to a ragdoll (text sprite) (Thank you Dexter Castor Döpping)

• BUGFIX: Fixed another inventory exploit, that allowed carrying of extra wands

• BUGFIX: Fixed Lukki Minion sometimes escaping and disappearing

• BUGFIX: Vaihdosmestari can no longer move cursed rock

• BUGFIX: Closing inventory while starting to drag items is fixed

• BUGFIX: Alt tab silliness is should now be fixed

• BUGFIX: Optimized particle effects

• BUGFIX: Player can no longer polymorph to Olematon

• BUGFIX: Runestone of edges could cause Puska to shoot forever

• BUGFIX: Mouse cursor displays the material even in the far lands

• BUGFIX: Optimized Circle of stillness and Freezing gaze

• BUGFIX: Fixed Null shot breaking modifiers cast after it

• BUGFIX: Cosmetic fix to the alchemist's background

• BUGFIX: More optimizations, including Freeze Field perk and Iceball spell

• BUGFIX: Fixed a rare crash that could happen with too many materials

• BUGFIX: Rare wand generation bug (the default green wand should be now fixed)

• BUGFIX: Minor - a perk icon was missing a pixel

• BUGFIX: Fixed a security vulnerability in the modding API (Thank you Dexter Castor Döpping)

• BUGFIX: Fixed Hookbolt having a buggy sprite

• BUGFIX: Fixed Giga White Hole not repelling projectiles

• BUGFIX: Fixed certain spell unlocks happening in an unintended way

• BUGFIX: Physics objects are less likely to fall through the bottom of the world

• BUGFIX: Fixed Explosive Detonator being bugged in certain circumstances

• BUGFIX: Fixed a boss not dropping all the spells it was meant to

• BUGFIX: Fixed a secret dropping spells that it shouldn't

• BUGFIX: Fixed multiple spells have some erroneous/missing data

• BUGFIX: Fixed a rare case of sky being black

• BUGFIX: Nullifying Altar did not remove the perk icons (Thank you Priskip)

• BUGFIX: Related perks should now be removed from the perk pool

• BUGFIX: Surprise puddles behind potions fixed

• BUGFIX: Certain endgame item can now be dragged in the inventory without TWWE

• BUGFIX: Saving and loading while stained caused extra status effects

• BUGFIX: Vomit based status effect glitch is fixed

• BUGFIX: Longer runs should be more stable and largely address aware thanks to Dexter Castor Döpping

• BUGFIX: Game mode selection UI has been optimized

• BUGFIX: Improved overall security of modding API

• BUGFIX: Audio - rewrote audio event stealing logic - should fix issues with audio sometimes "wrapping up" in a janky manner

• BUGFIX: Audio - ambience events no longer trigger lots of silent audio instances - reduces ambience CPU use

• BUGFIX: Audio - droplet sounds would rarely end up repeating without a cause

• BUGFIX: Audio - liquid flow sound was sometimes left playing

• BUGFIX: Fixed a potential issue in regards to file paths

• BUGFIX: Fixed an xml parsing issue

• BUGFIX: A fix caused more issues than it solved

• BUGFIX: A fix broke some translation mods that used custom fonts

• BUGFIX: Possible fix for "Game will restart due to mod changes" without changes

• BUGFIX: Fungal shifts rarely didn't occur

• BUGFIX: Fungal shifts that didn't fully realise still counted towards the maximum limit

• BUGFIX: Certain spells weren't keeping the ID of their caster around like they should've

• BUGFIX: These release notes were so long that the UI had performance issues

• BUGFIX: Some surface areas had no sky light after above areas had been visited, and were not counted as surface by audio etc

• BUGFIX: Final boss hanging around very far from the player could block mini-boss music

• BUGFIX: Wands retain cast delay, recharge etc over a game restart

• BUGFIX: A settings menu item was using a missing translation key when hovered

• BUGFIX: Infinite rain exploit

• BUGFIX: Some localization strings were incorrectly escaped

• BUGFIX: Text in tablets and books didn't display correctly in all languages

• BUGFIX: Fixed issues with UI in some languages

• BUGFIX: More robust mod check when saving bones files

MODDING

• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableAddEntity

• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableRemoveEntity

• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableGet

• MODDING: Lua - added LoadRagdoll

• MODDING: Lua - GameCreateCosmeticParticle - now with gravity_x and gravity_y

• MODDING: Lua - LoadPixelScene - now with allow_duplicate param

• MODDING: Lua - added PolymorphTableSet

• MODDING: Lua - added ComponentGetTags

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyJustDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsKeyJustUp

• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetMousePosOnScreen

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonJustDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsMouseButtonJustUp

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickButtonDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickButtonJustDown

• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetJoystickAnalogButton

• MODDING: Lua - added InputIsJoystickConnected

• MODDING: Lua - added InputGetJoystickAnalogStick

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsComponentGetTransform, PhysicsComponentSetTransform

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsPosToGamePos, GamePosToPhysicsPos

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetFromEntity, PhysicsBodyIDQueryBodies

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetTransform, PhysicsBodyIDSetTransform

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDApplyForce, PhysicsBodyIDApplyTorque

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetWorldCenter

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetDamping, PhysicsBodyIDSetDamping

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetGravityScale, PhysicsBodyIDSetGravityScale

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDGetBodyAABB

• MODDING: Lua - added ModDoesFileExist

• MODDING: Lua - added RemovePixelSceneBackgroundSprite and RemovePixelSceneBackgroundSprites

• MODDING: Lua - added EntitiesGetMaxID

• MODDING: Lua - added ModMaterialFilesGet

• MODDING: Lua - added ModRegisterMusicBank (init.lua) and example in mods/example

• MODDING: Lua - added GameGetSkyVisibility, GameGetFogOfWar, GameGetFogOfWarBilinear, GameSetFogOfWar

• MODDING: Lua - added DEBUG_LUA_DONT_REPEAT_ERRORS magic number to log recurring, consecutive errors only once (defaults to 1)

• MODDING: Lua - lua error stack traces

• MODDING: Lua - added ModImageMakeEditable, ModImageIdFromFilename, ModImageSetPixel, ModImageGetPixel

• MODDING: Lua - added ModImageWhoSetContent, ModImageDoesExist

• MODDING: Lua - added ModLuaFileGetAppends, ModLuaFileSetAppends

• MODDING: Lua - added ComponentGetEntity

• MODDING: Lua - added optional 'tag' parameter to EntityGetAllChildren

• MODDING: Lua - exposed ModTextFileGetContent and ModTextFileWhoSetContent to all lua scripts

• MODDING: Lua - made ComponentGet/SetValue2 up to 300% faster. Old ComponentGet/SetValue API is also a bit faster

• MODDING: Lua - added GameSetPostFxTextureParameter, GameUnsetPostFxTextureParameter

• MODDING: Lua - added PhysicsBodyIDApplyLinearImpulse, EntityGetHotspot, EntityRemoveStainStatusEffect

• MODDING: Lua - added use_material_colors & replace_existing_cells parameters to EntityConvertToMaterial

• MODDING: Lua - added font and scale options to GuiText, GuiButton and GuiGetTextDimensions

• MODDING: Lua API documentation - improved documentation of some functions

• MODDING: MagicNumber UI_WAND_TAG_OVERWRITES_NAME has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_ALLOW_INVENTORY_CLOSING_AND_DRAGGING_GLITCH has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_ALLOW_FULL_INVENTORY_SPELLS_DRAG has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_TELEKINESIS_GLITCH_FOR_TABLETS has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber DESIGN_TELEKINESIS_GLITCH_FOR_ITEM_PHYSICS has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_5TH_WAND_CARRY has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_ALT_TAB_SILLINESS has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_STAIN_DUPLICATION_GLITCH has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber GLITCH_ALLOW_VOMIT_BASED_STATUS_EFFECT_GLITCH has been added

• MODDING: MagicNumber DEBUG_DISPLAY_INTERNAL_ID_IN_PROGRESS_MENU has been added

• MODDING: Components - GameEffectComponent - polymorph_target should now work

• MODDING: Components - LaserEmitterComponent - ConfigLaser - added damage_apply_hitbox_dmg_multiplier

• MODDING: Components - PhysicsKeepInWorldComponent - added

• MODDING: Components - AttachToEntityComponent - added

• MODDING: Components - BiomeTrackerComponent - added

• MODDING: ComponentGetValue2() and ComponentSetValue2() now work with types::iaabb

• MODDING: Components - LuaComponent - added limit_all_callbacks to allow limiting of all callbacks

• MODDING: Fixed DEBUG_DISPLAY_INTERNAL_ID_IN_PROGRESS_MENU

• MODDING: Updated debug_keys.txt

• MODDING: Added support for static_tile biomes, that are like wang biomes without randomization, consisting of one large tile

• MODDING: Added support for static_tile_bg_mask, that are repeating backgrounds with a rough mask that defines the visibility

• MODDING: Added audio_music_trigger_without_danger to Biome. Used in watercave. Also added other new audio-related properties

• MODDING: Added intensity2 parameter to GameEntityPlaySoundLoop

• MODDING: IKLimbWalker, IKLimbsAnimator - exposed ray_skip_material

• MODDING: CharacterPlatforming - added audio_liquid_splash_intensity

• MODDING: PhysicsAI works better with non-levitating creatures

• MODDING: Added auto-generated any_liquid any any_powder Material tags

• MODDING: Audio - reports filename on bank load error

• MODDING: Improved init.lua API documentation

• MODDING: Fixed a possible rare crash when using the mod API in not recommended ways

• MODDING: CharacterData/CharacterCollision - added dont_update_velocity_and_xform

• MODDING: Exposed some path finding debug rendering features in F7 menu

• MODDING: Materials.xml loading - doesn't log error if a material would have reaction to itself because of a reaction with duplicate material from tags

• MODDING: Entity xml - added _remove_from_base (on Base components) to exclude components from base entities

• MODDING: Added 'json' to accepted file types of ModTextFileGet/SetContent and workshop uploader

• MODDING: Default biome map loads via 'data/scripts/biome_map.lua' (makes biome map multi-mod editing less of a hassle)

• MODDING: fungal_shift.lua doesn't call CellFactory_GetType on file scope, so mods can use the file before that function is ok to call

• MODDING: Added AUDIO_PLAY_GAME_OVER_SOUND and AUDIO_FADE_MUSIC_ON_DEATH magic numbers

• MODDING: Biome - added parameters to control parallax bg look

• MODDING: MaterialAreaCheckerComponent - added always_check_fullness & count_min

• MODDING: IKLimbsAnimatorComponent - added is_limp,

• MODDING: GameStatsComponent - dont_do_logplayerkill

• MODDING: PhysicsShapeComponent - added material

• MODDING: AnimalAIComponent - added keep_state_alive_when_enabled (without this AnimalAI can get stuck in no state when Disabled & Enabled)

• MODDING: VegetationComponent - added random_flip_x_scale

• MODDING: CellData - added vegetation_random_flip_x_scale

• MODDING: CellData - added is_grass_hashed (for more natural look when grass grows on a long, flat horizontal surface)

• MODDING: PotionComponent - added custom_color_material

• MODDING/BUGFIX: Removing a game mode mod while there was an active run with it could make the game crash or behave weirdly

• MODDING/BUGFIX: Pressing "Install mods..." in mods menu would take one back to the main menu

• MODDING/BUGFIX: EntitySerializer couldn't always update entities on hot load changes

• MODDING/BUGFIX: Fixed a warning on game start if MaterialAreaChecker.material2 is not set

• MODDING/BUGFIX: ModSettingGetNextValue returned setting key if no next value is set for the setting (now returns nil)

Those are all the patch notes through April 30 for Noita Epilogue 2.

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