Patch Notes/3.19.0

Curseforge Release: 23th July 2025

With this update, we have also released our new official wiki! You can find it here

Highlights

Prestige
- After reaching level 100 and completing the herald, you unlock access to the Prestige system.
- Prestige levels are infinite and on each level up, you obtain \+1 Prestige Point
- In the Skill Tree, there is a new tab for “Prestige Powers”
- Prestige Powers are permanent unlocks that cost both prestige points, and knowledge points.
- There are 2 types of prestige powers:
  - Always Active \- passive powers that are always on
  - Activatable \- powers that can be toggled on/off
  - An example of activatable are the Elytra Wings, compared to always active such as no gear durability damage.
- Prestige Powers follow a tier system. Higher Powers require lower-tier powers as a prerequisite. For example you must unlock a tier 1 power before you can unlock a tier 2\. To learn more about prestige powers, you can check out our wiki page here

Royale Vaults
- Requires level 50+, only obtainable through the Royale Rock which you can craft
- Upon entering, you start with an empty inventory, no abilities, no talents, and the number of skill points that match your level.
- Random objective rolls, you must complete it to finish the royale vault
- All picked up loot from chests will go into a “Royale Crate” located in your inventory.
- You are presented with “Tommy”, where you can select one of each presets, blue trinket and red trinkets, and rewards that are presented to you
  - The reward will go into your Royale Crate which is
- Find “Royale Loot Crates” inside of the vault, containing gear, new ability and talent scrolls, and tools. One is provided for free in the start room
- If you complete the vault, you receive a royale crate with the rewards that you selected at the start of the vault \- You will also receive a Royale Vault Stone block which you can use to build a portal with

Companions
- If you play your cards right, and get lucky, you may attract a companion egg at any time, any discovered place, inside a vault
- The companion egg will roll one of two series: Legend, Pet
  - The Legend series will roll a random patreon supporter (but can be renamed using a name tag)
  - The pets have custom models and animations
- When you roll a companion, it will roll one “temporal modifier” of which the time will scale with the companion level
- You can place your companion inside a companion home block, which will show you its level, hearts, relic slots and particle slots
- A companion can have a maximum of 5 hearts, and a max level of 10
- Levelling up to levels 2, 6, and 9 will unlock Relic Slots
  - Relic slots allow you to add “Companion Relic” which adds modifiers to your companions
  - Relics can be found in vault chests and treasure sand, only if you have a companion in your head slot
- Levelling up to levels, 1, 4, 8 will unlock Particle Slots
  - Particles can also be found in vault chests and treasure sand and will add particle types and colours to the companion
- You can bring companions into your vaults and they will then have a cooldown until it can be used again.
- Once they have used all their lives, the companion will “Retire”, meaning their modifiers can no longer be used. You can however bring them into your vaults
- Comes with a new expertise to lower companion cooldown (We also made the grid 4x4 to fit this in)
- Companions cannot be used in Royale Vaults, Raid Vaults, Herald Vaults or Ascension Vaults

PvP Vaults
- Rolls a random objective; elixir, bingo, or scavenger. All players share the same requirements.
- PvP is enabled, and all abilities damage players.
- Compatible with Royale using the “Royale PvP” rock
- Up to 8 players can join, once the second person joins a 2 minute timer begins, and the vault locks.
- After 2 minutes are up, no one else can join, and all players are teleported to a random position in the vault.
- First to complete the vault, or the last man standing wins, and everyone else will be kicked without completion.
- When inside a vault party, the health is not visible
- Vault Map discovery is shared, although you cannot see each others positions

New Abilities (With new cards and gear modifiers)
- Arcane
  - Ability Power based hold ability; channel a magical beam that damages mobs.
- Rail
  - Ability Power based cast ability that hits a single mob with incredible power. This can trigger on-hit effects.
- Earthquake
  - Attack Damage based cast ability; Cause an earthquake dealing attack damage that reduces the farther from the epicenter
- Land Mines
  - Attack Damage based cast ability: summon a landmine where you’re standing, which explodes when mobs step on it. Chains with other landmines.
- Lightning Strike
  - Ability Power based cast ability: conjure a lightning arrow that strikes any mob it hits with lightning, chaining the lightning to any nearby mobs.
- Ball Lightning
  - Ability Power based cast ability: Conjure an orb of lightning that is controlled by your crosshair, zapping every mob in its path
- Chaos Cube
  - Attack Damage based cast ability: throws a powerful cube that explodes after a little while, dealing scaled damage in a radius.
- Toxic Vial
  - Ability Power based cast ability: throws a toxic, poison-infused vial that shatters into a big poison cloud upon impact
- Mana Barrier
  - A specialisation for Mana Shield, it will use mana to cast a cube around you, stopping mobs from entering (and leaving) \- It will not follow you
- Life Tap
  - An added specialisation to Implode

New Talents
- Lighting Finesse
  - Gives you a chance to stun mobs hit by Lighting Abilities
- Lighting Mastery
  - Increases your minimum damage with a percentage when using Lighting Abilities

Other Additions

New Unique in X-Mark
- Called Ann-Mari and has the phoenix modifier
New Card Deck Textures
Spectate a Vault
- Using a new block, the “Spectator Terminal”, you can view anyone who is currently in a vault, and click on their name to start spectating the vault\!
- Users can spectate the players camera directly, or freeroam
- Spectating can be stopped by holding the designated keybind, or crouching (SHIFT) if no keybind is set
New Wooden Omega Room: The Pixel Room
New Wooden Village Room: Wooden Fort
“The Locker”
- The spirit extractor now lets you retrieve your body back for no cost. However, you will go into debt. As long as you are in debt, every vault you enter will belong to "The Locker" and you will gain no experience, even in co-op vaults.
New Gamerules:
- Spectator Mode: The mode to spectate players. OFF, PLAYER, FREEROAM
- Spectate Party Only: For privacy reasons, you can enable this if you want to limit spectating to /party members only.
- Map Sharing: All rooms explored in a vault will be visible on each users’ map\!
- Spirit Locker: Enable or disable the debt feature on spirits.
Reworked the Ability Screen
- It is now zoomable and panable, along with new categories to easily guide the player to what abilities they should take
- It now also has a new background (Along with the Talent, Research, and Expertise screen)
Accessibility Options
- Added a “Keyring Contents” option to show how many total keys are inside the keyring as the stack count
- Added a 2nd page to the game rule screen in options.
New Trinkets
- Aether Spark
  - Provides a boost while jumping, allowing temporary flight
- The Dice
  - All damage is multiplied by 1% to 300% each time it is dealt
Added Magnet item rendering when in the curios belt slot to show off your transmogs\!
Added Vault Altar Ingredients, Mystery Eggs, Mod Boxes, Black Market items, and Bounty rewards to JEI.
Added 6 New Focus Models
Added Azalea Flower conversion recipes
Added new blocks
- Driftwood and Stripped Driftwood Wood
- Gem Blocks, stairs, slabs, and walls
Added new Quests for Coin Pouch, Animal Pen, Max Level, The Herald, Prestige,

Changes & Balance Tweaks

Guardians Thorns Balance

 For a while, guardians in challenge rooms being so strong have made it nearly impossible for the average player to enjoy these rooms. To help balance this, we are making an important change; guardians no longer deal any thorns damage in any challenge room

Village room spawners are now fizzle spawners
Axes and Swords Tweaks
- Implicit damage has been massively increased.
- Attack Damage Prefix has been moved to suffix.
- Ability Power can now roll as a suffix
- Lucky hit chance has been moved to prefix
- Lucky Hit Chance now competes with Chaining instead of other on-hit effects
- Base attack speed for Axes has been buffed to be closer to swords
Players no longer start with the patchouli Vault Hunters Guide Book as its no longer updated
Vault Map has a lower cost in the Spirit Extractor (Now same as trinkets)
Completely revamped “anti cheesing” on Champions

 Instead of throwing things at you, champions will now teleport to you if you attempt to cheese. However, they will no longer trigger this behavior if you have not recently damaged them, allowing you to run away without fearing death through blocks.  
 This feature only occurs on Hard difficulty and above

On Hit Talents owned by the player now apply to chained mobs, each mob triggering its own probability
Moved farmer from an ability to a talent
Removed pillagers from initial raid and increase vindicators amount
Moved the done button for editing the minimap position
Prevented artifacts from being placed onto framed blocks, as this caused bugs
To spawn the rune boss, you must now shift right click
Tanks now drop purple mob essence instead of Dwellers
Each scavenger mob drop item will now show which mob type it comes from
Updated the sprite swords and axes to new models\!
Removed the ability for x-mark to spawn a bishop deck before level 50
The Inventory Hud grid is now centered to the crosshair
Snapshots for vaults after updating will now store timestamps, which can be used in the improved “/the\vault open\snapshot” command.
The Inventory Hud now shows “Broken” when vault gear is broken instead of 0%
Softened the outline of Unidentified Vault Gear textures
Lightened the No Jewel icon in the Jewel Applicator
Redesigned cloud Faceted Foci textures
Antiques will only drop in level 50+ vaults and require the player to have an antique book in their inventory.

Bug Fixes

Archon & Smite loading cooldown incorrectly
All abilities now continue to overlevel without a stop in statistics
Bounty abandon timer not updating until menu reopened
Different anvil states not being voided from void crucible
Empower: Slowness affecting chilled mobs
Frame drops when item is in modifier workbench
Hatred Totems giving soul shards on spawn
Infinite healing on rune boss
Living gear outleveling player due to XP sharing
Map/UI persistence issues when switching between server and singleplayer
On Hit Talents not applying to chained mobs
Permanent Blazing, Frenzy, and Arcana effects
Player head icons disappearing on map when out of render distance
Poison Nova triggering chaining
Rampage buffing poison nova
Resource cards not giving proper rewards
Rotten modifier allowing fruit consumption in raids
Trinkets being used in trial vaults
Vault Party UI not appearing on re-log
Void crucible not dropping gold/vault alloy items when broken
Wands not shift-clicking into off-hand slot
Potion Display not actually turning off custom effects.
Quickbind ability menu not saving on restarts
Quest and skill tree screen not closable with inventory key
Tubium and bomignite door having swapped item textures
Plunderers pearl giving xp if you run brazier and get xp modifier
Removed the ability to put seals on a crystal in an anvil
Botania flasks no longer usable in vaults
Added benitoite variations to JEI which are missing
Breeding of snow foxes continuously giving the chat message
Javelin sight not showing raw vault chests
Cooldown on gear triggered when relogging
Vendoor rooms not counting to omega room on Bingo
Rampage icon in the effect being the old icon
Area of effect skill menu description
Living not respecting the level lock
Holding display settings for barred trapdoor models.
Battle Cry and Potions not taking the correct stack count from Elites and Bosses
Being able to change Keep Inventory in create world menu
Remove spiders and vindicators from dragon room
Barrels no longer have a smaller hitbox
Mine room ores not counting to mining room bounty
New mushroom has less sporadic chest placement
Healing salve trinket having wrong value of \+150%
X Marks remaining closed after a player had died, making their body unobtainable
Last Stand not showing the resistance increase in player stats
Shopping Pedestals saying “You do not have enough air”
Mob effects removed on player respawn
Empowered Chaotic Focus can improve Cloud effects
Amplifying Focus can improve Cloud effects
Nova triggering effects like chaining
Updated multiple sword models to have correct angles
Updated Crystallised Blade texture
Being able to use scrap at 100% proficiency in the forge
Getting trapped chests with 100% trap disarm
Spiders jump not being reduced with any modifier that affects their speed (including being frozen)
Fix ability description for Mana Shield, Retribution, and Shield Bash to have the correct icon for “Cast Ability”
Fix shield bash not receiving bonus from i.e Rampage
Fixed a number of rendering issues and crashes.
Fixed map colour of driftwood and its logs
Fixed “use item overlay” causing trinkets/void stones/charms not to show stack size in backpacks
Fixed modifier workbench overflow issue on inventory view
Fixed dwellers despawning from Trapped Chests
Fixed raw theme map textures
Fixed positive XP modifiers working in Brazier vaults on vaults with no or negative XP
Fixed Battle cry using stacks on thorns
Fixed bingo tasks changing counts when in co-op
Fixed shift clicking card decks into Curios
Fixed Missing Conditions for Evolution and scaling cards
Crafted Effect Avoidance on shields now applies to suffix slots
Fixed Vault Map research cost not scaling with its research group
Jewels obtained from quests are now size 5
Fixed inaccurate modifier tier on Inferno Reach unique tooltip
Fixed inaccurate modifier tier on wand tooltip
Removed sweeping edge as a crafted sword modifier
Fixed spawners infinitely spawning mobs in challenge rooms
Fixed Elite Spider spawning in festive themes
Fixed God altars appearing in vaults before level 40
Added soul value to capstones, raw chest scrolls, unique crate scroll, and Spicy Hearty Burgers
Added Ability cards for Shell, Quill, and Porcupine
Added Attack Speed faceted Focus
Re-introduced the snow wolf to winter themes
Fixed Dash, heal, and entropic bind mana use scaling
Fixed some omega rooms not counting towards bingo

As always, you can report bugs using /bug-report in the Vault Hunters Official Discord\!