Patch Changelog
Dwarf Eats Mountain patch changelog with official update summaries, affected wiki pages, and links to SteamDB patch records.
July 21 v1.4.0 - Ritual Hotbar and Fixes
Section titled “July 21 v1.4.0 - Ritual Hotbar and Fixes”| Area | Version 1.4.0 change |
|---|---|
| Rituals | Added a movable, collapsible hotbar showing each ritual’s hotkey, cooldown, and cost. Rituals can be cast from the bar. |
| Saves | Hardened prestige and backup saves against crashes, blackouts, and other interrupted writes. |
| Foundations of Stone | Fixed a state that could lock player input. |
| Denbreaker’s Hail | Permanent damage gained when a Great Cannon destroys a den increased from 0.2% / 0.4% / 0.6% to 0.4% / 0.8% / 1.2%. |
| Nuclear Research | Gold, Mithril, and Soul costs were reduced again. |
| Megapick | Higher base damage, diminishing scaling with Miners, and no maximum Miner cap. |
| Quest artifacts | Philosopher’s Stone and other quest-artifact odds now rise slightly with mountain level. |
| Cooldowns | Fixed a loading bug that could give rituals cooldowns lasting days. |
| Interface | DPM and OPM panel positions persist across prestige. |
The official note also lists achievement, localization, tooltip, and crash fixes.
Official Version 1.4.0 patch note
May 18 First Small Patch
Section titled “May 18 First Small Patch”Released May 18, 2026. SteamDB build: 23292835.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| UI | Fixes GUI alignment and misalignment issues from launch. | Common Questions |
| Supporter pack | Fixes the supporter pack mohawk button in settings and skins. | Common Questions |
| Steam achievements | Fixes achievements so they trigger correctly without needing to exit and restart. | Common Questions |
| Miscellaneous | Includes smaller launch fixes and tweaks. | Changelog |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”This was a launch cleanup patch. Strategy pages do not need route changes from this patch, but achievement troubleshooting should assume the post-patch behavior.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
May 19 Another Dwarven Patch
Section titled “May 19 Another Dwarven Patch”Released May 19, 2026. SteamDB build: 23312961.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Prestige screen | Fixes widescreen stretching and aspect ratio issues on the prestige screen. | Prestige, When to Prestige |
| Upgrade costs | Fixes visual cost display bugs on upgrades. | Best Upgrades |
| Localization | Fixes typos, localization text, and Cyrillic upgrade conditions. | Common Questions |
| Steam screenshots | Fixes Steam screenshot behavior. | Common Questions |
| Artifact behavior | Fixes Restless Talisman repeatedly applying. | Artifacts |
| Balance | Includes smaller number and behavior tweaks. | Changelog |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”This was mostly a stability and presentation patch. It does not change route planning much, but it makes prestige and upgrade screens more trustworthy.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
May 21 Small Balance Patch
Section titled “May 21 Small Balance Patch”Released May 21, 2026. SteamDB build: 23346958.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Boss artifacts | Boss artifacts give more PP, and the Great World Spire reward gets a larger PP payout. | Best Artifacts, Great World Spire Checklist |
| Tier 5 artifact odds | Improves Tier 5 quest artifact odds through Treasure Hunter, Forge Artifact, Alchemy, and Great Shabu Altar. | Artifact Sources, Forge Artifact, Alchemy |
| Key Master | Buffs Key Master and adds a tier. | Key Master, Triple Seal Gate |
| Damage branches | Rebalances Flamelords and buffs Great Duke Cannon, Alkahest Aperture, Sacred Drills, and railguns. | Best Builds, Turret Railgun |
| Fixes | Fixes immortal frogs, a Triple Seal Gate key exploit, V-Sync setting, and text/GUI issues. | Triple Seal Gate |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”The patch pushes the late game toward artifacts and special gates. If your run is already clearing dens and bosses, Treasure Hunter, Forge Artifact, and Alchemy are more valuable than launch-era odds implied.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
May 21 Windowed Resizing and Linux Fixes
Section titled “May 21 Windowed Resizing and Linux Fixes”Released May 21, 2026. SteamDB build: 23353153.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Window and Linux support | Fixes windowed resizing, aspect ratio behavior, black bars, GUI layout, and related prestige reset issues. | Common Questions |
| Flamelords | Rebalances the late fireball payoff so it follows a fire build that is already stacking fields reliably, not an automatic rush. | Flamelords, Best Builds |
| Key Master | Buffs Key Master again after the earlier balance patch. | Key Master, Triple Seal Gate |
| Fixes | Includes minor text, typo, and small behavior fixes. | Changelog |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”Fire remains strong, but Flamelord’s Wrath should be treated as a payoff after firefields are already working, not a reason to buy Wrath before Rapid Ignition, The Great Pyre, and Infernal Symphony have made the fire engine reliable. Key Master is more important for Triple Seal Gate reliability than launch-era notes suggested.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
May 22 Boss Forced Prestige Removal
Section titled “May 22 Boss Forced Prestige Removal”Released May 22, 2026. SteamDB build: 23369243.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Boss failures | Dragon’s Peak and Balrogg’s Pit no longer force prestige on failure. The run continues, like the Goblin King and Golem checks. | Bosses and Special Mountains, Dragon’s Peak, Balrogg’s Pit |
| Artillery | Buffs Great Duke Cannon, artillery scaling, Air Strike, and Nuclear Research synergy. | Artillery Hall, Great Duke Cannon |
| Laboratory | Buffs Power Overwhelming by adding more damage per tier. | Power Overwhelming, Scientists Guide |
| Miner prestige | Buffs C.L.U.S.T.E.R.P.I.C.K. and adds more tiers to that route. | C.L.U.S.T.E.R.P.I.C.K., Best Prestige |
| Megapick | Buffs Megapick base damage and miner scaling. | Megapick, Best Builds |
| Fixes | Fixes Key Master den-drop behavior, Triune Prism Stonecaller counting, Laser Cannon cooldown rounding, ritual warnings, and some reload cost bugs. | Key Master, Laser Cannon |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”The boss change is the most important part for routing. Failing Dragon’s Peak or Balrogg’s Pit is no longer an automatic reset point; continue the run, strengthen the build, then return for the artifact.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.1.0 Big Ascension Patch
Section titled “v1.1.0 Big Ascension Patch”Released May 23, 2026. SteamDB build: 23380894.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Ascension reward | Ascension grants substantially more PP per ascension rank than launch. | Late Game Ascension, Best Prestige |
| New Tier 6 prestige | Adds Ascended Gold Cache, Endless Mithril Fortune, and Ancestral Halls. | Prestige, Late Game Ascension |
| Start-resource buffs | Ascended Soul Cache and Ascended Mithril Cache were both buffed. | Ascended Soul Cache, Ascended Mithril Cache |
| Endless scaling | Endless Conquest, six unit-specific endless upgrades, and Golden World were buffed. | Endless Conquest, Golden World |
| The Nauglamir | Gains a PP-doubling passive for mountain PP gains. | The Nauglamir, Great World Spire Checklist |
| Alchemy | Adds the I hotkey, changes the mithril cost ramp to every 25 uses, and improves Tier 5 artifact odds. | Alchemy, Scientists Guide |
| Artifact generation | Improves Tier 5 artifact odds through Treasure Hunter and Alchemy, and fixes a Forge Artifact failure case. | Forge Artifact, Treasure Hunter |
| Miner upgrades | Buffs Mithril Pickaxes and Thunderboom Tips and adds more tiers. | Mithril Pickaxes, Thunderboom Tips |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”This patch makes ascension planning much more important. Starting resources and repeatable Tier 6 upgrades are stronger, Nauglamir becomes a real PP engine instead of only a gate artifact, and Alchemy becomes less punishing over long runs because the mithril cost rises more slowly.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.2.0 Chunky QoL, Buffs and Fixes
Section titled “v1.2.0 Chunky QoL, Buffs and Fixes”Released May 28, 2026. SteamDB build: 23458268.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Buying controls | Shift-click buys up to three unit or upgrade purchases, and Ctrl+Shift-click can buy a prestige row left-to-right. | Prestige, Best Prestige |
| New Tier 6 prestige | Adds Foundations of Stone, a late upgrade for starting runs with non-prestige buildings already constructed and batch-buying free units. | Foundations of Stone, Late Game Ascension |
| New Tier 6 prestige | Adds Primordial Hunger, a level-100+ PP engine that also changes Great World Spire handling. | Primordial Hunger, Great World Spire Checklist |
| Artillery buffs | Buffs Massive Balls, Wrecking Ball, artillery mastery scaling, Air Strike, and Nuclear Research costs. | Artillery Hall, Air Strike, Nuclear Research |
| Demolition utility | Buffs Wind Bomb and its interaction with I’m A Power Load. | Demolition Build Guide |
| Miner utility | Megapick now always hits both dens and the mountain. | Megapick, Dens and Artifacts |
| Save and reload fixes | Fixes several rare save, reload, sound, PP, GPM, display, and late-game number issues. | Common Questions |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”This is the patch that turns late-game prestige into a much smoother loop. Foundations of Stone reduces setup time, Primordial Hunger improves long post-100 mountain farming, and artillery gets enough cost and scaling help to be more than a novelty branch.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.2.1 PP Hotfix
Section titled “v1.2.1 PP Hotfix”Released May 29, 2026. SteamDB build: 23473997.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| PP loss hotfix | Fixes a bug that could remove PP after the prior patch, and gives a compensation grant to saves that had already prestiged. | Prestige, When to Prestige |
| Primordial Hunger | Excess chance over 100% now rolls into another PP chance instead of being wasted. | Primordial Hunger, Late Game Ascension |
| Big-number display | Fixes additional rounding cases for very large values. | Mountain Health |
| Foundations of Stone | Fixes missing free scientists and runesmiths after buying Foundations of Stone. | Foundations of Stone, Scientists Guide |
| Megapick | Fixes Megapick behaving oddly when C.L.U.S.T.E.R.P.I.C.K. triggered. | Megapick, C.L.U.S.T.E.R.P.I.C.K. |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”If you are playing after this patch, Primordial Hunger is better than a flat capped chance suggests because overflow keeps mattering. Foundations of Stone is also safer to buy because its free-staff behavior was fixed.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.2.2 Reinforced Saves and Some Tweaks
Section titled “v1.2.2 Reinforced Saves and Some Tweaks”Released May 30, 2026. SteamDB build: 23488425.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Saves | Adds an internal save-backup safety net to reduce the chance of silent save-write failures. | Common Questions |
| PP recovery | Adds more fixes for the previous bonus-PP compensation resetting. | Prestige, When to Prestige |
| Artillery cost | Reduces the cost of Turret Railgun related railgun upgrades. | Turret Railgun, Best Builds |
| Nuclear artillery | Further reduces Nuclear Research and Air Strike costs, and increases Air Strike chance per tier. | Nuclear Research, Air Strike |
| Auto-clicking | Right-clicking the mountain now toggles Eternal Feasting on and off. | Eternal Feasting |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”Late artillery is less punishing to enter than it was at launch. Air Strike and Nuclear Research still belong after the Artillery Hall economy is online, but the patch makes them easier to justify in a serious cannon route.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.3.0 Endless Artifacts, QoL, Buffs, and Fixes
Section titled “v1.3.0 Endless Artifacts, QoL, Buffs, and Fixes”Released June 6, 2026. This was a major late-game update: it added a repeatable artifact loop, added a new Tier 6 prestige upgrade, buffed artillery, and improved save-file safety.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Endless Artifacts | Adds repeatable artifacts that can drop from artifact-yielding mechanics after every non-Tier 5 artifact has been collected. The repeatable rewards are +0.5% all-dwarf damage, +0.5% ore gold value, or +1 PP. | Endless Artifacts, Best Artifacts, Artifact Sources and Missing Relics |
| New Tier 6 prestige | Adds King of the Spire. Rank 1 starts The Great World Spire automatically after 10 seconds. Rank 2 lets the spire keep moving when missing artifacts would otherwise stop progress. | King of the Spire, Great World Spire Checklist, Late Game Ascension |
| Vault of Gods | Adds two more ranks to Vault of Gods. | Vault of Gods, Best Prestige Upgrades |
| Air Strike | Raises Air Strike base damage from 20% to 30%, so Tier 4 Nuclear Research makes it 90% instead of 60%. Air Strike rockets now use Cannon crit chance instead of a flat 5%. | Air Strike, Nuclear Research, Best Upgrades |
| Save handling | Improves save-file handling, Steam Cloud rollback protection, and adds a session-start save snapshot. | Common Questions, Late Game Ascension |
| Alchemy UI | Alchemy result panels now close after 6 seconds. | Alchemy, Scientists Guide |
| Safer destructive actions | Delete Save and Begin Game on the prestige screen now require holding the button. | When to Prestige, Common Questions |
| Bug fixes | Fixes duplicate artifacts, some GUI/settings issues, an Insatiable Guzzler issue after Great Inhale ritual, mirrored damage numbers for Wrecking Ball, and other smaller issues. | Insatiable Guzzler, Wrecking Ball |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”If you are still missing required artifacts, use the Great World Spire Checklist before farming repeatables. Once the non-Tier 5 artifact pool is exhausted, Endless Artifacts make artifact systems keep paying out in long late-game runs.
Air Strike also deserves a higher late-artillery priority after this patch because both its damage and crit behavior improved.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”
v1.3.1 Hotfix
Section titled “v1.3.1 Hotfix”Released June 7, 2026. This hotfix mostly cleans up the v1.3.0 late-game additions.
What Changed
Section titled “What Changed”| Area | Change | Wiki pages |
|---|---|---|
| Endless Artifact auto-pick | Endless Artifacts can now be right-clicked to auto-pick the same type each time after 5 seconds. | Endless Artifacts, Best Artifacts |
| Achievement fix | Fixes the collect-all-artifacts Steam achievement not working correctly because of Endless Artifacts. | Endless Artifacts, Common Questions |
| Ascension saves | Fixes some Ascension save issues. | Late Game Ascension, When to Prestige |
| Air Strike chance | Fixes Air Strike giving less chance than intended. | Air Strike, Nuclear Research |
| Stability | Fixes a potential crash. | Common Questions |
Player Takeaway
Section titled “Player Takeaway”The practical change is simple: if you are farming Endless Artifacts, right-click the preferred reward type and let the game auto-pick it. For artillery builds, Air Strike should now behave closer to the intended v1.3.0 power level.