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Ferret Tufts | Patreon Weekly #308
🕑 Added 2025-04-28 14:00:13 +0000 UTCHey Patrons! In this weekly I’m going to show off a new trinket coming in v3.1!
This weekly also includes an audio Q&A! You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.
A New Trinket
While new items didn’t do spectacularly in the most recent polls, I have had this one in my head for a little while, and so dedicated a little time to adding it in v3.1. It’s a new trinket with more of a cute aesthetic this time. It’s a little reference to a favourite ferret.
Gameplay-wise this trinket is another combat modifier, a little bit like the clover, but affecting accuracy instead of damage ranges. The player gets a sort of discount ring of evasion effect, but in exchange enemies get some more evasion too! I expect experienced players are going to really like this trinket, as it nicely ties into ignoring enemy evasion via positioning, abilities, or magic.
I’m still toying with the exact numbers on the effect, I suspect 25/15% per level might be a bit much, but previously it was 10/5% and the trinket barely felt like it was doing anything. There’s a fine balance here between making the trinket not generally bad, impactful feeling, but also not so pronounced that builds which ignore acc (e.g. wands) benefit hugely from it.
I’m pretty happy with how the sprite turned out, but as usual it took a little while to get there. It’s been a little while since I showed off an art process, so I made sure to capture it with this one. Here’s the major steps I took to make a ferret tuft sprite that didn’t look like garbage:
looks like a rolled up scroll, scrapped
reminds me of a cheese string, scrapped
tried shading using smaller shapes put together, reminds me of a bushel of wheat, that's closer at least
fattened the bottom, trimmed the tips, and shuffled around pixels using RNG, starting to look like fur!
had the idea for a cute bow instead of just a band
cleaned up bow's shading, ditched the bow tails (not enough space to convey them clearly)
made the pixel noise a lot more purposeful, better conveyance of shape
final color pass, increased the fur contrast a bit and made the bow look more limey. done!
Audio Timestamps
This month there were 23 questions from 8 different Patrons.
0:08 "How is you? Also, Hah! Beat radiant!" - Octavia
1:15 "I will capture your remaining rook with my bishop! will you deal a returning blow with your own?" - radiantchaos
1:40 "If you had to rock paper scissors your favourite discord members, how many games do you think it take for you to lose?" - Chewyou
2:54 "Ultra-futuristic question, but when Shattered Pixel dungeon is "complete", what do you want to do? Apply for a dev-role at a game-dev company? Make a new game in a new Genre?" - Raynuva
4:20 "Adding to this, what is your "final" idea for Shattered, as in an endgame goal" - Octavia
5:37 "who is your favorite character in enter the gungeon?" - radiantchaos
7:07 "What's your favourite Pokemon?" - Chewyou
8:08 "How's the weather for you right now? For me it's been super nice. Sunny, but not too hot, and a nice breeze." - Terry
8:31 "Thoughts on the trap mechanism allowing enemies to step on hidden traps? " - #1 ring of force stan
9:42 "Expansion on a previous question I had; what item from shattered would be the most practical for you to own irl? (If a ring or artifact, imagine it's +2-5). While a ring of might may make you very strong how useful is that in our world in our era? Would a wealth ring make you find money on the ground or do I still have to kill things for it to work?" - #1 ring of force stan
11:12 "What do you think of this completely sweet and innocent man (that looks oddly like john waters) who's definitely not a sadistic fish demon who shows people their past trauma" - Octavia
13:00 "Are you planning to vote in our current federal election? Not who you're voting for, I know people get particular about that part." - Chewyou
13:38 "Who do you think is the hardest champion enemy to deal with? I have a real problem with the fire flies." - Chewyou
14:33 "Could you find potions or strength/scrolls of upgrade outside of the dungeon? if so how much of a commodity/rarity would they be?" - vivination
15:44 "What your favorite place you've visited? Could be anywhere. (Local, out of state/country) Also, where would you want to visit in the future?" - Terry
17:15 "Is the main religion in the SHPD universe polytheistic?" - Octavia
18:53 "Are most effects in the game (for example, evasion) additive or multiplicative? Case dependent?" - Veek
20:01 "As Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the... great-grandchild?... of the original Rogue, what Rogue-Likes have you enjoyed playing (given they are cousins and all that)?" - Raynuva
21:25 "As a follow-up, how many nods to these games would you consider adding to Shattered?" - Raynuva
22:31 "What is the average floor to ceiling height of each reigon? Asking because I want to build it in minecraft" - Octavia
23:27 "As a (former, possibly returning) Warframe player, what Warframe (did) do you enjoy playing the most?" - Raynuva
25:09 "What do you think of my halloween costume from last year?" - Octavia
25:57 "What's your favorite planet?" - Octavia
Comments
Pug_luvr
Trap mechanism should let you instantly move a trap anywhere within a ~8 tile radius
Shattered Pixel
Yeah I do think that some of it's unpopularity comes from people just seeing "traps = bad" and that's it.
Lassoloc
i personally really like the trap mechanism (it's boring but it's one of my more common picks) because i love chasm floors. easy to find secrets, easy to snipe enemies, easy to abuse bwave or stormvine and delete troublesome enemies. i just find the utility of more chasm floors to be a good benefit to have if no other trinkets from the selection are calling out to me
Shattered Pixel
Referring to the Ferret Tuft? I'm still waffling on how pronounced I want the effect to be at +3, but yeah I absolutely agree there's a danger of making it too pronounced and therefore absurdly good on things like wand builds. These current test numbers are based on my original max of 40/20% feeling like it did very little. What would you think is more balanced then?
Explodingpineapple 64
Holyyy thats sooo broken
