Tower of Trials v2.01 r46

v2.01 release; a couple of minor but critical bug fixes:

• Goombella's Multibonk and Ironbonk now correctly deal damage matching their own selected level, instead of each other's.
• Running out of Crystal Stars to pick with the "Move Limit" setting will no longer spawn fake Strange Sacks, and if you have one from a previous run, it will no longer appear in your important items menu.

Tower of Trials v2.00 r45

Tower of Trials v2.00, a major content update, is now released!

Note: Save files will still carry over from v1.xx saves, but cannot be reverted to an earlier version after updating.

Changelist:

• Added 10 new achievements, and reworked a few existing achievements to make them more flexible to attain. Some older achievements have also had their clear conditions updated to reflect newly added content, or had slight clarity improvements made to their descriptions.
• Added 6 new cosmetic rewards.
• Added new unlockable run options:
  • Move Availability - Changes the way moves are awarded in the tower:
    • Default
    • Partners get +1 move pick when you first get them.
    • Jump, hammer and partner moves get offered in random order.
  • Move Limit - Limits the number of moves of each type you can take.
  • Stage Hazards - Change the frequency or types of stage hazards that can appear.
  • Run Away Chance - Guarantee being able to flee from battle.
• Added NPCs / interactions:
  • General White's appeared in town! Try doing speedrun achievements to learn about his secret plans!
  • Once you've gotten to try out every move in the game, talk to the moves enthusiast in East Petalburg for a special reward!
• Balance changes:
  • Sweet Treat now offers 8 HP+FP, 12 HP+FP, or 16 HP+FP at maximum, based on the move's level.
  • Goombella's moveset has been swapped around; Multibonk is now a tier-1 move, and Ironbonk is a tier-2 move.
  • Appealing SP regen has been slightly rebalanced; a base Appeal will yield 0.40-0.80 based on size of audience, and Super Appeal (P) adds 0.40 per copy, rather than 0.25-0.75 + 0.50 per.
  • Mario and partners' "Defend" action (and Toughen Up (P), by extension) now acts as a straight damage reduction, like guarding, rather than granting temporary Defense.
  • Quick Change's maximum FP cost has been reduced from 5 to 3.
  • Pretty Lucky now has a 12.5% hit reduction rate instead of 10%, to make it slightly more viable filler and no longer strictly inferior rate-wise to Lucky Day.
  • Double Dip BP cost changed from 4 to 3.
  • Slightly reduced coin cost of Return Postage and the Happy Heart/Flower badges, and slightly increased coin cost of the HP/FP Drain badges.
  • Space Food can now be used on any target, like Vivian's Neutralize.
  • Slightly tweaked a few run settings' Intensity values.
  • Wonky will now only accept a limited number of items per appearance.
  • Zess T. will no longer let you know the results ahead of time when cooking a Mystery.
  • Requirements for some specialty Zess T. recipes were altered slightly.

Tower of Trials v1.16 r44

v1.16 release; minor fixes / changes:

• Unlockable option bugfix:
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    Changing "Secret Boss" option no longer disqualifies the player from "finish with N stats at zero" achievements.
• Removed vestigial feature from Infinite Pit where pressing Z toggles off enemy ATK/DEF display, since it was a cause of confusion for players going for Tattle completion, and always displaying it isn't that distracting.
• Infatuate is no longer prevented from being used again if a previously Infatuated Pider/Arantula dies.
• Improved description wording on the "win with all of your moves maxed out" achievement.

Tower of Trials v1.15 r43

v1.15 release; one unlockable option moved outside of presets, and a few other minor changes:

• Slightly reduced the frequency of all Piranha Plants' breath attacks, and likelihood of Frost Piranha's standard attack inflicting Freeze. (It still will not break the target out of Freeze early, though.)
• Signs in lobby / in tower now correctly show the selected seed in red only if it was manually selected.
• Unlockable option change:
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    "Secret Boss" option moved above preset selection, so you can choose whether to enable it always, never or randomly, regardless of the selected preset. If you choose a non-default option, it will show "SB:Y/N/?" in the options string, but it won't affect the completion of achievements requiring a "default" ruleset.

Tower of Trials v1.14 r42

v1.14 release; Reworked Mowz's Smooch, and other small changes:

• Smooch now restores Mario's stats over time instead of restoring Mario and Mowz's HP:
  • Level 1 - Restores 5 HP for 3 turns, for 4 FP.
  • Level 2 - Restores 5 HP+FP for 3 turns, for 7 FP.
  • Level 3 - Restores 5 HP+FP and 1/3 of max SP for 3 turns, for 10 FP.
• The sign outside the tower entrance now shows the tower difficulty in addition to seed/options.
• Other minor text changes.

Tower of Trials v1.13 r41

v1.13 release; minor balance changes + text improvements:

• All 6-BP badges (Power Plus (P), Lucky Day (P), Return Postage) reduced in cost to 5 BP so they can be immediately used with default settings. Lucky Day (P)'s coin price was raised slightly.
• HP+FP stat thresholds for determining which Zess specialty recipe to produce were raised slightly, as it was needlessly difficult to cook a Zess Dinner beforehand.
• Improved a few achievement descriptions and Tattles.

Tower of Trials v1.12 r40

v1.12 release; a few fixes and adjustments:

• Partners' max HP should now be consistent if continuing from an auto-save, for real this time.
• Improved the clarity of various bits of text, mostly concerning the hub shop + shop floors.
• Creating all-new scripts for Mario's moves for ToT inadvertently made Hammer Bro audience members less snobbish about proper use of Hammer action commands; this has been rectified.

Tower of Trials v1.11 r39

v1.11 release; critical fix for early-game:

• Second tutorial run is now against Gloomtail's tower, as intended, instead of Hooktail.

Tower of Trials v1.10 r38

v1.10; minor feature update, a couple minor fixes + QoL improvements:

• Added RTA Race run settings preset for use in community races, which has slightly different rules and uses the Real-Time timer by default. Unseeded best times set with this preset are saved separately from unseeded best times using Default settings, and can be toggled between using the Y button in the Records menu. Note that all achievements requiring "default settings" (including the in-game-time speedrun ones) still require using the "Default" ruleset, and cannot be completed with "RTA Race" rules.
• Changed default Tower type to Hooktail's for subsequent runs, since players tend to play that the most.
• Made a couple of idle / Appeal-based conditions a little less punishing to complete.
• Fixed results screen having incorrect coin amounts if you hit the 9999 currency caps.
• Defensive Action Storage no longer occurs on Piranha breath attack.

Tower of Trials v1.09.1 r37

v1.09.1 release; minor bugfixes:

• Zess T. will no longer offer Point Swap recipes unless you have a Point Swap and a swappable item.
• (v1.09) "Random Audience Throws" option: badges thrown immediately after a harmful item will no longer be considered harmful as well.