# Battle Royale

## Changes

- Solo and Civilization games will now use the Hunger Games Start instead of Dragon Scatter.
    - Players will be spawned in pods around one of 4 Cornucopias at 0, 0.
    - PvP will be enabled for the first 2 minutes of the game, disabled once Mining Phase begins, which lasts 10 minutes.
- All structures have been reverted from their Halloween variants.
- The recipes for the Shrink Ray and Corrupted Crossbow have been adjusted, making them easier to craft.
- Each game will now include 3 Monuments in the ocean.
- Mjolnir and Pufferfish cannon have been removed from Bowless games.
- Roulette Royale is now compatible with Hunger Games Start games.
- Hunger Games Start custom games can now be hosted with the Civilization team size.
- All legendaries now have upgraded versions for the Legendary Pedestals scenario, which is now accurately displayed in their lore.
    - Most Sword legendaries start with 10 Attack Damage (8.5 base + Sharpness 2).
    - Bow legendaries start with Power 4.
    - Crossbow legendaries start with Quick Charge 2.
    - Other legendaries have buffs to their cooldowns, charges, and other values.  These numbers are displayed in white in their lore.
- Hypnosis Staff
    - Players can hypnotize a maximum of 3 Iron Golems.
    - Hypnotized Iron Golems can no longer be healed using Iron Ingots.
    - Iron Golems will no longer freeze when hypnotized while chasing a target.
    - Mobs will now be fully healed when hypnotized.
    - The health of mobs with less than 50 hearts will be tripled (15 heart minimum, 50 heart maximum)
    - Using the ability on a hypnotized mob will now heal it for 10 hearts.

## Fixes

- Fixed instances where Pods would not open correctly, leaving players stuck inside glass.
- Kings Crown will no longer grant excessive max health when combined with Health Boost.
- Fixed an issue causing Monuments to sometimes not spawn.
- Roulette Royale will no longer exclude some legendaries.
- Roulette Royale will now properly give players a new legendary weapon after a kill.
- Enderbow no longer deals damage when using the teleport ability.
- Fixed some legendaries giving attack damage while in the offhand.
- Fixed Guardian Cannon making players untargetable and collide with invisible entities once the beam started firing.
- Fixed Strength potion effect acting as Resistance.

## New Bots

- Bots will spawn around players during the game and will behave like real players, their loot is based on what other players have in the current game.

## **New Legendary Items**

- Sculkweaver’s Lantern
    - Right-click to launch a lantern, when it lands, it creates an inescapable area
    - Spawns mobs inside that help you fight enemies
    - Ability will last for 15 seconds and has a 90 second cooldown
    - Ancient City chests will now not drop one of the following in each game to prevent multiple legendaries from being crafted:
        - Disc Fragments
        - Sculk Sensors and Sculk Catalysts
- Crimson Chainsword
    - Right-click to curse the blade, making your next attack cause bleeding damage (3 hearts over 1.5 seconds)
    - Killing players grants **Strength II** for 15 seconds
    - Deals 1.5x damage to enemies below 30% health
    - Ability has a 30-second cooldown
    - Piglin Heads now have a chance to drop from Piglins.
        - This chance is heavily influenced by the Looting enchantment.
- Kim The Transmuter
    - Give her an item, and she’ll attempt to transmute it into a more powerful version
    - Kim will keep transmuting until she fails three times
    - Transmutes with more valuable results have a higher chance to fail
- Armadillo Detonator
    - Right-click to shoot up to 3 explosive armadillos (20 second cooldown)
    - Left-click to detonate all armadillos, dealing area damage (5 second cooldown)
    - Armadillos automatically detonate after 60 seconds if attached to a player
- Evoker Wand
    - Left-click  to summon three lines of deadly evoker fangs in front of you (12 second cooldown)
    - Right-click to summon two vexes that fight by your side (45 second cooldown)

## Legendary Rotations

**Rotated In:**

- Poseidon's Trident
- Magma Club
- War Pick
- Evoker Wand
- Kim the Transmuter
- Armadillo Detonator
- Crimson Chainsword
- Sculkweaver's Lantern

**Rotated Out:**

- **Emerald Blade**
- **Hypnosis Staff**
- **Wither Sickles**
- **Jim the Sorcerer**
- **Cloud Sword**
- **Corrupted Crossbow**
- **Ravager Horn**

# Duels

## Bots

- You can duel against the Battle Royale PvP bots with standard and custom kits
- Use them to practice PvP or test custom kits without a real player

## Changes

- Casual 2v2 duels have been re-added
- Casual duels are now a single NPC and function like custom duels
    - Duels are “hosted” when players join a queue, and NPCs will spawn allowing other players to join
- Added “Play Random Kit” post-match item in casual duels
    - Allows you to rejoin another casual duel with a random kit
- New legendaries have been added to custom kits and Roulette Royale
- Competitive matchmaking algorithm has been improved to create more fair matchups
- Increased overall XP gain
- Sumo kit has been re-added

## Fixes

- Legendaries will no longer share their cooldowns between players in custom games.
- Fixed blocks in Bridge kit not stacking.
- Fixed Cloud Sword blocks being placed above height limit.
- Fixed a Ravager Horn cooldown bypass.
- Fixed an Aiglos duplication glitch.
- Fixed border damage not functioning after a rematch.
- Fixed string being unbreakable.

# Cosmetics

- Seasonal Halloween mystery crate has been removed
- Bringing back our old non seasonal mystery crates permanently: Deep Dark, Aquatic, End, Fire, Mythological

## New Legendary Weapon Skins

- Found in the End Crate
    - Void Singularity Shrink Ray
    - Dragonbreath Katana
- Found in the Deep Dark Crate
    - Skulkripper Shadow Blade
    - Resonant Golem Hammer
- Found in the Fire Crate
    - Inferno Magma Club
    - Radiant Excalibur
- Found in the Mythological Crate
    - Talarian War Pickaxe
    - Serpentine Aiglos
- Found in the Aquatic Crate
    - Fishflop Pufferfish Cannon
    - Guardian Poseidon’s Trident

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Hoplite Patch Notes - Nov. 16th, 2024