[Game Update] - The Powers-A-Plenty Update is now Available!

[Bryce]

Hello hunters!

Today we’re launching the Powers-A-Plenty Update! Available on both Steam and Nintendo Switch 2, This update aims to add variety to hunts by expanding the pool of powers and putting more of an emphasis on powers that change how you interact with the world instead of simply boosting the power of your hunter.

Powers-A-Plenty also adds an entirely new type of power: The “Weapon Power”. Weapon powers aim to change how you play for the remainder of the hunt by doing things like tweaking the core rules of your weapon’s move set, adding new attacks, or changing how existing attacks behave.

In addition to all of the tweaks to the powers in the game, we’ve also been fixing bugs and implementing QoL suggestions that we’ve seen reported or suggested. We've also updated localization support for Russian and Castilian Spanish.

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Additions

• New power type to discover: Weapon Powers

• Many new powers, including within all four fabled power families

• New accessibility option: Hunter's Assist (local games only)

• Russian language localization

Changes

Powers & Skills

Electric

• Electric chain reactions now trigger every 7 charge stacks or when killing a target

• Static Shock: reduced the area of effect when heavy attacks apply charge

• Strike Twice has a chance to strike twice instead of all the time

• Reworked Split to Aftershock. Instead of a chance to split chain reactions, chain reactions have a chance to repeat upon finishing hitting all targets

Shield

• Powers that previously gave a full shield now give 4 shield segments so they can interact with powers that trigger on gaining shield segments

• Introverted has been moved to the shield family

• Iron Brew has been moved to the shield family

• Iron Brew now refills one potion charge instead of refilling all potion charges

Summon

• Reimagined the Summon family as a family that is based entirely on summoning and buffing minions

• Minions now gain additional health and damage in more difficult content

• With A Little Help now only spawns Melee minions (one of the new powers spawns the Ranged minions)

• Thinking with Portals has been moved to the general power pool

Cold

• Cold Snap now activates for every 10 enemies that get cold applied to them

• Cold Wave has a reduced cold area when activated

• Cold Storage now stores damage on cold or frozen enemies

• Chilly Response applies cold instead of frozen to enemies

• Snowball Fight has cooldown for snowballs thrown by it

• Reworked Glacial Armour

• Frozen Fatality now has a chance to trigger any time on frozen enemies instead of activating on low health frozen enemies

• Removed Glacial Rush power

• Ice Storm now activates on killing cold enemies, in addition to frozen ones

• Reduced the number of Icicles spawned by Desolate Imprisonment

• Ice Volley renamed to Snowy Salvo; it shoots Snowballs instead of Ice Chunks

• Cold status effect now lasts longer

General

• Perfect Pairing now refills an amount of potion charges with each upgrade level

• Extroverted now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5

• Straight to Business now gives 2 seconds of additional time per kill, down from 5

• Featherweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight have additional stat bonuses added to them

• Body of Light returns your health to the previous amount if it was obtained and removed via the Quetzi Scalemail

• Fabled supporting powers now spawn for all selections when they appear

• Power Rerolls now stay within the family of the power being rolled when possible

Skills

• Polearm Vault skill does damage upon vaulting and landing on the ground

• Gourdo's Community Garden skill now reloads cannonballs if it damages an enemy

General

• Improved UI scaling when playing on handheld devices

• When joining a game in progress, new players will now appear near the entrance of the room

• Powers now spawn slightly closer together in multiplayer games

• You can now drink your potion when you have full health

• Improved the Castilian Spanish translation

Fixes

• Stop Loss no longer reduces maximum health in certain "?" rooms

• Fixed an issue that caused certain Teffra Anomaly effects to not appear in all locations

• Fixed issue where Shell Drake's bite could cause more damage than expected

• Fixed bug with Grimhollow's saplings that caused their shield to last for longer than intended

• Fixed bug where Rook would sometimes not topple after all crystals in the room were killed

• Fixed a bug in Phase 2 of the Tefframech fight where the boss would be unable to do its double swipe attack if players ran back and forth behind it during its attack hold state

• Improved game performance

The next (and final) content update will be larger than this one and focuses primarily on filling out the endgame with content that we've teased in the in-game cutscenes. We currently expect to release a beta for that update in September/ October. 

As always, thank you all for playing and continuing to provide your feedback and suggestions!

Our annual publisher sale is back! 

Klei Fest is our annual celebration of all things Klei. https://store.steampowered.com/developer/klei/sale/kleifest2026

This year, we've got a ton of updates, discounts, and freebies for you.

 

• To commemorate 20 years as a studio, we've made our very first game, Eets free for everybody, forever.
• A free game update for Oxygen Not Included with new buildings, bug fixes, and QOL!
• The Rotwood Powers-A-Plenty Update adds a new "Weapon Power" power type, QOL, and bug fixes.
• The Release of Aquatic Planet Pack DLC for Oxygen Not Included.
• The Lowest prices ever for many Klei Entertainment games
• 10 Years of Don't Starve Together - 90% off and a ton of Free exclusive Klei Fest Skins
• A bunch of great bundles with additional discounts up to 50% off!
• The Klei Shop has a big Klei Fest sale.
• The conclusion of our DST Interactive Lore story arc
• And DST Mobile is coming July, 21st!

We've also got more news from our published titles!

• Rift of the NecroDancer OST Vol. 2 Music Pack is out now!
• Beastieball has a new update, including workshop support and Portuguese localization
• Fretless is now Steam Deck verified! Check out the new Accolades Trailer!
• U.V.S. Nirmana has released a free bonus campaign update!

Check out more games published by Klei!

 

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[Kacpert25]

2 hours ago, Bryce said:

The next (and final) content update will be larger than this one and focuses primarily on filling out the endgame with content that we've teased in the in-game cutscenes. We currently expect to release a beta for that update in September/ October. 

Final? Oh... 
So after that we can only count on possible dlc.
Okay.

[Azamagon]

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The next (and final) content update

Noooo! T_T

Will there at least be DLCs for it? I mean, I can see both weapon expansions and area+enemy expansions. I really hope it isn't left for dead!

As for weapons?

• Dual Dagger types, with quick slashes, heavy double stabs and even thrown dagger attacks.
• Boomerangs, with short "melee" throws or long piercing heavy throws.
• Blade and Board, as a more defensive option. Blades could be swords, axes, pickaxes, claw-swords - basically anything sword/axe-esque. "Boards" (aka shields) could be made of all kinds of things; Wooden, stone, gems, rillo / wollusk / bulbug shells etc. The possibilities are so vast!

And I bet there are more far ideas for this game than just more weapons and areas+enemies.... just please keep expanding it! T_T
 

[capedsader03]

Is this update available on Switch 2 as well or just PC?  Just curious.  

[CaleyC]

4 minutes ago, capedsader03 said:

Is this update available on Switch 2 as well or just PC?  Just curious.  

The patch is currently going through the submission process with Nintendo and will be live when that is complete!

[BezKa]

Can't wait for my friends to be able to play! I really want to try the update out

[Bryce]

The Powers-A-Plenty update is now also out on the Nintendo Switch 2!