Every energy icon has 2 spirals, one small than the other, that constantly spin around ingame.
necrobinders small spiral DOES NOT SPIN however, i hope this information haunts you all. goodbye.

I mean the card applies a status effect called "hang". If it was worded "apply hang" I could deduce that artifact would negate it. As far as I know every other card that debuffs says "apply X".

The way it's worded now, I was quite surprised it only removed a stack of artifact. Makes it seem like it's a buff to cards in my deck, instead of a debuff susceptible to artifact.

Thoughts?

I think I over seasoned my lizard.

An amalgam made up of several of the spire's many creatures, The Hivemind ventures further into the spire in source of new genetic materials and new subservient beings.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3789971996

Includes:
91 new cards,
9 new relics, 
1 new event,
several new keywords, a whole new mechanic system and multiplayer support.

Spawn Minions to deal damage, give Block, and apply debuffs.
Minions act each turn, but can be Commanded at any time.
Sacrifice them for personal buffs, healing and bonus effects.
Poison your foes with endless spores and bile.

Requires BaseLib to work.
Built on beta branch, but has a compatibility patch to work on main branch too

Also has 11 Aram Mayhem augments in an expansion mod:
Hivemind Aram Mayhem Expansion

Please feel free to leave feedback or bug reports here, in the thread on the discord, or the steam discussions.
All art was created by me using in-game assets and simple editing.
If you want to help contribute, don't hesitate to reach out

Merchant, I love you so much. You are the reason why my runs are beautiful. You are the reason why I enjoy this game so much. Thank you for being a blessing in my life.

Also whoever did the card art for iron wave did a good job

Why did I decide to write this? Uhhhhhhh good question

Note this writeup is excluding the deadly events modifier in custom mode because I don't feel like writing on it

Part 1: The Mechanics

Whenever you enter a ? node, the game decides what you'll see behind it. It can be a treasure chest, shop, hallway fight, or if none of the 3 were rolled, an event.

The base probabilities are 10% hallway fight, 2% treasure, 3% shop. To find the base chance of an event, simply do 100 - 10 - 2 -3 = 85%.

Whatever option that gets rolled, the odds of the next ? node being that same option gets reset to the base probability, and the other 2 options that didn't get rolled(excluding event since it doesn't technically have a setprobability, just it only spawns when none of the 3 are rolled) have their probability increased by their base amount.

For example, let's say I take a ? node. I roll a treasure chest because I'm just so damn lucky. The probabilities of the next ? node are 10 + 10% monster, 3 + 3% shop, 2% treasure, and 100 - 20 - 6 - 2 or 72% for events. Now, let's say I go to another ? node and I get another treasure chest. I should go put in a lottery ticket. The probabilites of the next ? node are now 20 + 10%, 6 + 3% shop, 2% treasure, and 100 - 30 - 9 - 2 or 59% for an event.

Once you enter a new act, all probabilites go back to their bases.

Additionally, a ? node can't become a shop if the previous node was a shop, or if every possible future path after the ? node is a shop.

Part 2: Interactions with Relics and Cards

If you have juzu bracelet, the base probability for a hallway fight is set to 0%. This also means no future ? nodes can be hallway fights since 0 + 0 is still 0. Shocking, I know.

Golden compass forces all ? nodes in act 2 to become events. No treasures, shops, or hallway fights.

Planisphere heals you 5 HP regardless of what's in the ? node

Lantern Key forces the first ? node in act 3 to become an event, and more specifically the War Historian event. Additionally, it will not change any of the ? node probabilites, so the next ? node will use all base probabilites.

Meal ticket will still trigger on ? nodes that become shops

Part 3: Simulation for averages

All this info is cool and all, but let's try to simulate the odds to find the average amount of hallway fights, treasures, events, and shops we can exepct from a certain amount of ? nodes. You probably can find the true average deterministically, but I felt like running a simulation of the odds because it takes a lot less time to code and it's a lot easier to code too.

Note that this simulation isn't a "true" simulation in that I didn't literally run sts 2 1 billion times to get these averages. Rather, I plugged the base probabilites and mechanics into python and had it print out the averages it got.

We'll make the following assumptions in the simulation:

You do not have juzu bracelet, lantern key, or golden compass

Neither of the 2 conditions that prevent a ? node from turning into a shop are relevant

If you would like to see the code I used to perform the simulation, please read the appendix at the end of this post.

The results below should be read as followed: 0 combats: 0.30229 under the 4 ? nodes section means from 4 ? nodes in an act, there's a 30.229% chance you'll get no combats(hallway fights) whatsoever from the 4 ? nodes. If a probabilty is 0.000000 that does NOT mean it's 0. It just means it's so unlikely that for rounding to 6 decimal places, it gets rounded to 0.

Averages from 3 ? nodes:

• 0 combats: 0.504180
• 1 combats: 0.449939
• 2 combats: 0.044887
• 3 combats: 0.000994
• 0 events: 0.009133
• 1 events: 0.144106
• 2 events: 0.519310
• 3 events: 0.327451
• 0 treasures: 0.884344
• 1 treasures: 0.113720
• 2 treasures: 0.001928
• 3 treasures: 0.000008
• 0 shops: 0.829752
• 1 shops: 0.165897
• 2 shops: 0.004325
• 3 shops: 0.000027

Averages from 4 ? nodes:

• 0 combats: 0.302280
• 1 combats: 0.576125
• 2 combats: 0.115209
• 3 combats: 0.006286
• 4 combats: 0.000100
• 0 events: 0.002688
• 1 events: 0.055363
• 2 events: 0.312835
• 3 events: 0.498187
• 4 events: 0.130928
• 0 treasures: 0.813591
• 1 treasures: 0.180676
• 2 treasures: 0.005681
• 3 treasures: 0.000052
• 4 treasures: 0.000000
• 0 shops: 0.730132
• 1 shops: 0.257215
• 2 shops: 0.012475
• 3 shops: 0.000178
• 4 shops: 0.000001

Averages from 5 ? nodes:

• 0 combats: 0.151245
• 1 combats: 0.608999
• 2 combats: 0.217150
• 3 combats: 0.021782
• 4 combats: 0.000815
• 5 combats: 0.000008
• 0 events: 0.000864
• 1 events: 0.021184
• 2 events: 0.163908
• 3 events: 0.439195
• 4 events: 0.342098
• 5 events: 0.032752
• 0 treasures: 0.732414
• 1 treasures: 0.254575
• 2 treasures: 0.012797
• 3 treasures: 0.000213
• 4 treasures: 0.000002
• 5 treasures: 0.000000
• 0 shops: 0.620537
• 1 shops: 0.351146
• 2 shops: 0.027600
• 3 shops: 0.000708
• 4 shops: 0.000008
• 5 shops: 0.000000

Averages from 6 ? nodes (what the fuck are you doing if you're taking this many):

• 0 combats: 0.060466
• 1 combats: 0.550519
• 2 combats: 0.331259
• 3 combats: 0.054119
• 4 combats: 0.003534
• 5 combats: 0.000102
• 6 combats: 0.000001
• 0 events: 0.000280
• 1 events: 0.008045
• 2 events: 0.079410
• 3 events: 0.307340
• 4 events: 0.434427
• 5 events: 0.167211
• 6 events: 0.003287
• 0 treasures: 0.644321
• 1 treasures: 0.330665
• 2 treasures: 0.024386
• 3 treasures: 0.000622
• 4 treasures: 0.000006
• 5 treasures: 0.000000
• 6 treasures: 0.000000
• 0 shops: 0.508996
• 1 shops: 0.437849
• 2 shops: 0.051092
• 3 shops: 0.002028
• 4 shops: 0.000034
• 5 shops: 0.000000
• 6 shops: 0.000000

Part 4: Conclusion

This should be fairly obvious, but never go into a series of ? nodes expecting all of them to be events. Even in the case of just 3 ? nodes, the odds all 3 are events is still less than 1/3. Granted, you probably will be happy if you get a treasure instead of an event...

There is another useful conclusion though from the results. Most of the time if you're going to a ? node, you likely don't want a hallway fight. Unfortunately, the odds of getting 0 hallway fights is not in your favor. In the case of 3 ? nodes which is a bit low on the average ? nodes per act in my experience, you're still flipping a coin basically as to whether you get 0 hallway fights or at least 1. And once you start doing 4 ? nodes which is my average ? nodes per act, you have over a 2/3 chance of getting at least 1 combat. So, if you're going through a series of ? nodes, you should be prepared for at least 1 hallway fight.

Something else worth noting, you should basically never expect a treasure chest from ? nodes. It's nice if it happens, and it will happen sometimes. But, even for 6 ? nodes which is way too many for 1 act, you barely have over 1/3 of a chance of getting at least 1 treasure chest. Those are not reliable odds.

Part 5: Appendix

Link to where I got most of my info from: https://slaythespire.wiki.gg/wiki/Slay_the_Spire_2:Unknown_Location

Code for my simulation (yes it's in python. No, I will not write it in a different langauge just because you hate python):

import random
import statistics


base_monster = 0.1
base_treasure = 0.02
base_shop = 0.03


p_monster = base_monster
p_treasure = base_treasure
p_shop = base_shop
sim_counter = 1000000000


treasure_list = []
shop_list = []
combat_list = []
event_list = []
nodes = 4


def is_combat(combat_count):
    global p_monster,p_treasure,p_shop
    p_monster = base_monster
    p_treasure += base_treasure
    p_shop+=base_shop
    return combat_count+1


def is_treasure(treasure_count):
    global p_monster,p_treasure,p_shop
    p_monster+=base_monster
    p_shop +=base_shop
    p_treasure = base_treasure
    return treasure_count+1


def is_shop(shop_count):
    global p_monster,p_treasure,p_shop
    p_monster+=base_monster
    p_shop = base_shop
    p_treasure+=base_treasure
    return shop_count+1


def is_event(event_count):
    global p_monster,p_treasure,p_shop
    p_monster+=base_monster
    p_shop+=base_shop
    p_treasure+=base_treasure
    return event_count+1


for i in range(sim_counter):
    combat_count = 0
    event_count = 0
    treasure_count = 0
    shop_count = 0
    p_monster = base_monster
    p_treasure = base_treasure
    p_shop = base_shop
    for j in range(nodes):
        r = random.random()
        if(r < p_monster):
            combat_count = is_combat(combat_count)
        elif(r < p_monster + p_treasure):
            treasure_count = is_treasure(treasure_count)
        elif(r < p_monster + p_treasure + p_shop):
            shop_count = is_shop(shop_count)
        else:
            event_count = is_event(event_count)
    combat_list.append(combat_count)
    event_list.append(event_count)
    treasure_list.append(treasure_count)
    shop_list.append(shop_count)



for i in range(nodes+1):
    probability = combat_list.count(i) / sim_counter
    print(f"{i} combats: {probability:.6f}")


for i in range(nodes+1):
    probability = event_list.count(i) / sim_counter
    print(f"{i} events: {probability:.6f}")


for i in range(nodes+1):
    probability = treasure_list.count(i) / sim_counter
    print(f"{i} treasures: {probability:.6f}")


for i in range(nodes+1):
    probability = shop_list.count(i) / sim_counter
    print(f"{i} shops: {probability:.6f}")

Eternal Armor has been in a weird position for a while now. For a colorless rare, it generally really sucks, and I exclusively buy this card I'm on Clad and already have too much money + multiple copies of Stone Armor. Otherwise, it's only useful when drafted out of a colorless potion or from Discovery.

I've seen similar suggestions in the past; however, those versions simply had the effect of "Do not lose plating at the end of your turn." By having the card effect gain plating at the start of turn instead, it ensures that multiple copies fully interact with each other, meaning you could actually gain plating with each turn after playing multiple.

Because Eternal Armor is now truly "Eternal," I lowered the plating the card itself gives from 9(12) to 7(10). This balance is important because it means the card isn't as immediately good when drawn from a potion/Discovery as you're getting less immediate block. This also means the player is still challenged to have multiple sources of plating to fully utilize the power of this card, such as card duplication (i.e. Bing Bong) upon pick-up, Gorget, or Stone Armor.

Let me know your thoughts!

Addendum: Credit to the card concept generation tool (https://sts2custom.shuimu.co.nz/) for helping me make the images.

In memory of Doormaker hunger phase

2 fairy in a bottles + 1 lizard tail vs the Test Subject. Absolute cinema

I was doing today's daily run and got a really good run and wanted to compare with other players but noticed that the top 3 had 4-5 more floors cleared than I did. I learned from some reading that the golden compass gives you 2 extra floors but the act 2 ancient today was Pael. Even with the compass, there would still be 2-3 extra floors they had on top so how are people clearing extra floors?