The Etherian Festival of Love Returns! – Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.1.0

Chromatic Games  February 6th, 2025

Love is in the air, Defenders! Today’s update sees the world of Etheria littered with rose petals, chocolates, bouquets, and… scurvy?!

That’s right! Patch 10.1.0 introduces the Valentine’s Citadel DLC, brimming with Valentines and pirate-themed challenges and rewards, a new community mission; The Love Machine, similarly boasting a handful of lovely loot, and as per usual, plenty of fixes and balance changes.

New DLC Mission Valentines Citadel

The Magus Citadel has received a Valentine makeover in advance of the holiday. The only issue? This seems to have incited the rage of the local pirate population! Maybe they believe the seaside is no place for a sappy, love-filled celebration, or perhaps it’s because they’ve nary received even a rose from their salty significant others. Either way, all this commotion has piqued the interest of Mega Cupid!

Defenders victorious in quelling this lovesick assault will be rewarded with the new Bouncing Heart Staff and Fish Sword, Bachelor and Bachelorette Seahorse pets, and Wooden Hermit and Lover (Jester) outfits!

Also granted upon map completion are the Elegant Pirate Hat, Elegant Eyepatch and Elegant Pirate Bracers. Wearing all three of these armor pieces will grant a cosmetic set bonus; floating hearts will emanate from the player while standing still, and floating pirate skulls will surround the player while moving!

Some may consider the union of traditional Valentine’s themes and seafaring thieves strange, but we’d argue pirates are long overdue the opportunity to ask their salty sweethearts to go plunderin’ with them. Either way, the Dungeon Defenders – Valentine Citadel DLC is available now, and you can take advantage of a 10% launch discount until February 13th!

Find the Valentine Citadel DLC here!

New Community Mission: The Love Machine

Hordes of enemies—including some of Etheria’s most heartless antagonists—are trying to destroy the Love Machine! Are you brave enough to defend against them, and keep the apparatus beating?

After Defenders have reached wave 11, every 2 additional waves survived will reward players with a Lover Snake pet, Cat Ears, and one of the following weapons at random; the Minigun, Love Blaster, or Cane of Doomed Relationships.

Tavern Theme Change

If you’ve ever considered asking that special someone out on a Dungeon Defenders date night, now’s the time—we’ve set the mood for you! The Tavern has received a Valentine’s-themed makeover.

Quality of Life

• Coal, Small Coal, Radioactive Coal, and Heart Fragments can now stack to a maximum of 64. You can stack them by dragging one on top of another. You can unstack by holding Control (Ctrl) whilst dragging out of the stack (unfortunately, this is not yet supported by controllers). Heart Fragment colors do not persist through stacking.
• Golden enemies now drop 20% better loot on death.
• Increased the maximum number of heroes to 48, as largely requested after the Gunwitch’s release.
• Made all ‘Ruthless’ missions True Boss Rush-scale and playable by up to 6 players.

Balance Changes

• Decreased Frozen Rifle base damage by 2%.
• Decreased Gunwitch’s Witch’s Curse projectile damage by 30%.
• Decreased Witch’s Broom weapon extra reload speed on Gunwitch by 20%.
• Granted the following shields a 10% movement speed multiplier; Crystal Shield, Ember Shield, Emerald Shield, Heart Shield, Goblin Shield, Omenak Shield, Palantir Shield, Elf Shield and Turkey Shield.
• Increased Akatiti Jungle Goblin Mech boss damage taken from all sources by 100% except for EV’s Proton Beam ability.
• Increased Nutcracker melee damage on ‘Nightmare’ and ‘Ruthless’ by 25%.
• Increased stat scaling on Gunwitch’s Two for the Price of One ability.
• Increased Wasp pet damage by 15%.
• Reduced the overall Survival difficulty of ‘Ruthless’ Akatiti Jungle, Karathiti Jungle, Mistymire Forest, and Tavern Defense.
• ‘Ruthless’ difficulty Crystalline Resurgence: Part 4 now rewards two Mini Kraken pets.
• Using Gunwitch’s Vroom Broom ability now makes you deal 10% less damage from all sources.

Fixes

• Decreased bracer size on Musk Monk costume.
• Disabled Ogre spawn notifications on some maps that had them forcefully enabled.
• Fixed an issue causing lag-spikes on Challenge: Wandering Heart concerning Turkey Mages.
• Fixed Jester Guardian hero damage buff not applying correctly on the Hermit.
• Fixed leap slam doing no damage on Amazonian Barbarian costume.
• Fixed Leap-Slam doing no damage on Amazonian Barbarian costume.
• Fixed missing materials on Goblin and Orc enemies on Tomb of Etheria.
• Fixed Random Teleport (Jester Wheal o’ Fortuna effect) not always teleporting randomly.
• Fixed the scaling of ‘Golden Enemies’ Wheel O’ Fortuna combination.
• Fixed Upgrade/Downgrade Towers (Jester Wheal o’ Fortuna effect) not affecting towers that are too far away.
• Fixed Wasps and Sharken not having the correct ‘Ruthless’ material on Tavern Incursion.
• Fixed ‘Beach Island’ fruit tokens being destroyed when destroying excess mana tokens.
• Fixed Tower Wars Capture the Flag PvP team-based side for constructing towers.
• Moved Djinn spawn on Spooktacular Bay and Buccaneer Bay closer to the core to prevent stuck enemy issues.

Community

You can get updates on everything Dungeon Defenders and Chromatic Games by following us around in real life and scrutinizing every minute action we may perform on a day-to-day basis. That of course is an unrealistic time commitment, and you’d probably prefer just following us on social media—links to which can be found here.

Hardcore Dungeon Defenders fans, however, may want to consider joining the community-driven Dungeon Defenders Runs n Giveaways Discord server. Here you can participate in community-organized events and contests to earn unique rewards, test unreleased content in the form of betas, buy, sell, and trade gear, and maybe even find true love (if your concept of true love is a group of people to play Dungeon Defenders with)!

Defenders Royale Community Event

Tomorrow, February 7th at 12:00 (UTC-5/EST), marks the beginning of the Defender’s Royale event hosted by our friends from the Dungeon Defenders Run n Giveaways server. This event will run until February 9th at 22:00 (UTC-5/EST), and will feature a PvP, battle-royale style game mode. Drop into the game with no gear as a level one hero, equip yourself with loot scavenged from the map, and compete to be the last Defender standing to earn unique rewards!

For more information about this event, check out the official announcement, follow along for updates in the Dungeon Defenders Runs n Giveaways Discord server, and brush up on your event knowledge using The Official Guide to Events!