New Year event​​

• ​New Year festivities come to Wind Valley, featuring three new themes for the world: Fireworks, Day, and Inferno.

• Six new dragons introduced.​​

• New egg: the Pyrotechnic Egg.

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Gameplay

1. Experimental features

• Glide: In tap dragons, gliding can be enabled in settings. Tap and hold to initiate gliding.

• Rage Vessel: Hold dragons now channel player frustration, allowing for the destruction of towers upon holding your finger.​​

• Store Powerups: Dragons now have the option to store powerups upon collision. A button will appear to activate the powerup. If disabled, the powerup is consumed immediately, as in previous versions.

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2. Camera

• ​Dynamic Zoom: The camera zooms out based on dragon speed, capped at the dragon eye powerup distance. It also pans left for better visibility.

• Enhanced consistency in camera shakes.

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3. Improved clarity

• Enhanced visual effects for some powerups and their effects.

• Improved visual transitions of dimensional rifts, keeping the dragon at the top of the screen.

• Refined explosion visuals and clarity, ensuring the dragon remains visible.

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4. Redesigned Gameplay UI

• Overhauled UI elements for better clarity and readability.

• Crown counter now displays obtained crowns alongside the counter.

• Added fading counters for mystery eggs and stellar donuts.

• Included a powerup timer.

• Implemented a skill cooldown timer on the skill button.

• Added a dimensional rift counter.

• Introduced primary and secondary stored powerup buttons, with a smaller button for active skills.

• The store powerup button repositions along with the pause button.

• Updated the metronome for music-related skills.

• Highscores now display current dragon highscore instead of the global one.

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5. Towers

• Increased active tower pairs from 5 to 7, ensuring towers are pre-spawned at high speeds.

• Redesigned tower destruction effects: effects now span the entire tower instead of just the collision point.

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6. Powerups

• Standardized incremental speed effects across all control types.

• Gradualized changes in dragon scale due to powerups.

• Dragonheart: Now up to 3 dragon hearts can be held simultaneously.

• Suspicious Mushroom: Makes the dragon bigger (from x3.5 to x4), and the final explosion doesn’t occlude the dragon.

• Fairy Dust: Reduces dragon size more (from x0.5 to x0.25).

• Dragon Eye: Now pans the camera for increased visibility.

• Dragon Chilli: Improved collision detection.

• Thundercloud: Added extra visual effect, and final explosion doesn’t occlude the dragon.

• Sands of Time: Active time reduced (from 8 to 6 seconds), effectively 16 to 12 seconds due to time halving.

• Cosmic Stars: Increased star frequency (from 2 to 3), no longer destroys other powerups.

• Lucky Charm: No changes.

• Psychic Spoon: Now attracts chests, eggs, and donuts, with increased visual effect radius.

• Magic Snowflake: Gradual speed loss, ending with a frost nova affecting towers.

• Spooky Ghost: No longer occludes the dragon behind certain towers.

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7. Dimensional Rifts

• Overhauled visuals.

• Changed speed effect to add flat horizontal velocity instead of a multiplicative effect.

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8. Balance

• Widened the gaps in worlds with moving towers to prevent tower limit issues.

• Reduced the appearance of Christmas and Halloween chests.

• Adjusted Maelstrom colliders (slightly less generous than before).

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General

• ​The egg summary screen can now be accessed with a minimum of 2 eggs, reduced from the previous requirement of 5.

• Localization improvements.

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Home​​

• ​Added a "Hide UI" button on the home screen for an unobstructed view of the game backgrounds.

• Relocated the "How To Play" section to a dedicated button on the home screen for easier access. This section now also includes information about Shiny Donuts.

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Nest

• Slot indicators now display the current egg along with its progress.

• Removed certain animations to enhance responsiveness.

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Dragon selection

• Introduced additional filters: alphabetical (Z to A) and by release date (oldest to newest).

• Added letter indicators for easier navigation when using the alphabetical filter.

• Decreased the size of dragon selection buttons, increasing the number of visible dragons from 6 to 8.

• Removed scrollbar animations to enhance responsiveness.

• Reduced the size of visual indicators.

• Lowered the opacity of text indicators, except for the selected slot which retains full opacity.

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Store

• Introduced a new seasonal egg.

• Reset the availability of x2 offers.

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Postgame

• Added rift counter to the sharing score picture.

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Settings

• Redesigned the settings UI to be more modular, facilitating easier implementation of new features and toggles in the future.

• Introduced an option in settings to randomize dragons after each game.

• Added a toggle to show/hide the "How To Play" button on the home screen.

• Included toggles for experimental options.

• Introduced Stellar Donuts 🍩.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the background did not properly accelerate in sync with the dragon under certain conditions.

• Resolved a bug that prevented players from reaching the correct world after taking a dimensional rift.

• Addressed an issue causing players to get stuck on the revive screen when attempting to revive without available ads.

• Corrected a bug affecting the proper storage of quest completion statuses.

• Fixed a problem where high scores were not being recorded correctly.

• Resolved a scaling issue with dragon tails not adjusting correctly when under the influence of scaling power-ups.

• Eliminated a bug where remnants of towers from previous worlds were visible after passing through a dimensional rift.

• Addressed particle sorting issues on some maps.

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Dragon changes​​

• Malevol: Enhanced charge and reduced cooldown from 15/9 to 12/4.

• Rudfulf: Corrected a bug where the chance for finding Christmas gifts was miscalculated. Players should now find more Christmas gifts.

• Kimbaza: Fixed a bug affecting the calculation of Halloween gift chances. Players should now find more Halloween gifts.

• Xet Xet: Updated skill visuals.

• Xexarga: Updated skill visuals.

• Fiamal: Improved skill collision detection.

• Laiseros: Improved skill collision detection.

• Rakles: Addressed a bug related to dragon scoring.

• Oad Oad & Daquerudo: Swapped skills.

• Boo Loo: Updated its shiny colors.