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Mage Build Guide Part 1: The Graveyard

2025-05-12

This video covers a basic guide to playing the Mage build and a walkthrough for killing the Graveyard boss.

A look at the abandoned "choria new" branch

2025-05-04

This video looks at the work done to choria and the engine for a few months in 2019. Unfortunately, work resumed on the playable "legacy" branch of choria in June 2020, which again became the primary development branch. Since the branches have diverged so much, a lot of work would have to be done to bring over these new changes. Some features however have been ported over, like the personal stash and dialogue system.

Windows Download

Clone the git repository:

git clone https://gitlab.com/choria/code.git --branch new --recurse-submodules choria_new

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1.1.0 released

2025-05-01

Read the patch highlights!

Added Monk and Alchemist starting builds
Added random Blood Moon event
Added dialogue to various traders and vendors
Added names to all game locations
Added new boss fights
Added new endgame content
Added new relics for traversing certain terrain
Added personal stash
Added art for every key and map
Added Disenchanter for selling max skill levels
Added a Relic Wheel for quickly swapping relics (Press Tab by default)
Added new song to The Dark Chamber
Added various shortcuts and reworked many locations
Added timed practice dummies for testing DPS
Party members now display on the HUD with various stats
Players now persist in the world when offline
Players automatically rejoin battle after reconnecting
Boss battles and spawn points now require manual activation
Added sound effect and message when bosses respawn
Certain weapons now emit light
Armor sets now require 5 items (two-handed weapons count for two)
Added Blessed Staff to Cleric's starting build
Added damage return to Bronze/Iron/Steel set
Added 2nd/3rd tier gauntlets and quarter staves
Added minigame to hideout and added new token types
Added texture for hard lava
Added target count scaling to most skills
Actions now switch targets if original target becomes ineligible when action is resolved
Added max resistance stat
Added fractions to physical resist
Added bonus skill points every ten levels
Teleport scrolls now show which spawn point you're at
Rebalanced most skills and items
Various status effects now stack
Various masteries now increase debuff duration
Added stun resist to Physical Mastery
Added Hasten spell
Added Consumable Mastery
Reworked throwable items to work like attacks
Taunt now increases damage return power instead of armor and reduces target's evasion
Whirlwind no longer causes fatigue
Resurrect now gives stamina
Dodge now gains stamina for each attack dodged
Beggar now starts with Dodge
Cleric now starts with Heal Mastery
Added teleport scroll to most builds
Summon types can now be switched by left-clicking their status effect icon
Summons now inherit some of their owner's status effects when joining battle
Demons now cause stacking burning damage
Demons now deal more damage to burning enemies based on stack count
Ice Imps now slow on attack
Ice Imps now deal more damage to cold-slowed enemies
Skeletons now do more damage to poisoned enemies
Added Eternal Protection, Ward, Malice, Hell, Deceit, and Rest
Added Rite of Progress, Growth, and Evolution
Updated Rite of Passage key list
Updated cost of Rites
Added "move last items" button to inventory when Rite of Privilege is unlocked, which is automatically pressed when reincarnating
Summons are now kept on reincarnation based on Rite of Privilege level
An "enduring" relic is automatically kept when reincarnating, prioritizing an equipped one
A stack of two rings can now be equipped with right-click if the existing rings stack
Added ability to purchase 5x rites by holding Shift
Added highlights on the skill screen to show if a skill is equipped or unused
Added Upgrade Set button to blacksmiths
Hold Shift/Ctrl to buy 5x/50x at an Enchanter
Hold Shift to trade 5x items at a trader
Hold Ctrl to rapidly trade items at a trader
Hold Alt to show your item quantities at a trader
Hold Alt to show a battle's timer, boss kill count and difficulty
Hold Alt to show skill levels on the skill bar
Skills can now be assigned by hovering over a skill on the skill screen and pressing a skill bar hotkey
Right-click can now be used to remove skills from the skill bar
Added quick gold buttons to trade screen
Added vendor info display
Added equipped relic/amulet to HUD
Added day/night/event icon next to clock
Player names now stack when occupying the same tile
Increased player level interaction range
Added "Save Credentials" option to login screen
The last played character is now selected on the character screen
Increased inventory size
Recent items now show the total count in your inventory
Item drops are now added to your stash when your inventory is full
Improved display of large numbers
Improved readability of action results in battle
Added icons to delete dialog window
Added Suicide/Leave Battle button to in-game menu
Added Show Tutorial, Show Battle Stats, and 24-Hour Clock to options menu
Added priority command for changing placement order in battle
Enabled key repeat for skills/items
Disabled scaling on Windows
Switched from png to webp for textures
4K textures are now automatically used when desktop resolution is 4K or higher
Updated Flatpak runtime version
Fixed various compile issues

1.0.2 released

2023-01-23

Added command-line argument to run game with 4K textures
Added various server commands
Skill screen UI updates
Minigame texture fix
Party UI bug fix
Trader fixes
Moved project to GitLab
Switched build system to Ninja
Added AppStream MetaInfo XML
Added Flatpak build

1.0.1 released

2021-05-09

Added equipment stacking
Added inventory tab for end game mechanics
Added Ctrl+Right-click to bulk buy
Update battle color when corpse is used
Bug fixes

1.0.0 released

2021-04-17

Added many new areas to explore
Added item belt that only stores items
Added enchanters for increasing max skill levels
Added set bonuses for all armor and most weapons
Added new end game mechanics and challenging super bosses
Added off-hand weapons and dual wielding
Added new equippable slot for end game relics
Added passive mastery skills
Added skill point unlocks
Added 3 new starting builds
Added 11 new bosses
Added 17 new monsters
Added 23 new skills
Added 146 new items
Added 12 different procs to weapons
Added 7 new songs
Added 19 new sounds
Added map items
Added cursed items that can't be unequipped
Added cooldowns to various skills/items
Increased inventory/trade bag size
Increased item stack amount
Bosses grow stronger after each kill and show a corpse when on cooldown
Newly learned skills start with a max level of 5
Summons that survive battle are now stored in buffs
Resurrect spell can now be cast in the world
Various items can now purge debuffs
Torches now pause during battle
Trader items now only search through inventory bag
Added 4K resolution support and optional 4K texture pack
Direction of party members now show on the HUD
Use right-click to manually dismiss buffs
Added unlocks tab to inventory
Keys now get used automatically
Hold alt to view more info on various screens, items, and skills
Added shift+click to transfer items between bags
Added ctrl+click to upgrade items in inventory
Skills are now sorted by category, then name
Host field can be pasted on the connect screen
Added "players", "networth", and "suicide" console commands
Passwords are now hashed on server
Added more dedicated server commands
Optimized network traffic
Many balance and map updates
Fixed many bugs/crashes

0.5.0 released

2019-09-27

Replaced irrlicht with a custom SDL2/OpenGL based engine
Reworked entire UI and all artwork
Reworked all game content
Reworked skill system
Reworked battle system to use individual timers instead of turns
Action bar can now hold items
Battles can now support up to 8 fighters on each side
Bosses are event based now and have fighting cooldowns
Added sounds/music
Added blacksmith to upgrade items
Added party system
Added starting builds for new characters
Added various map events: doors, portals, custom scripts
Added per-pixel lighting and smooth camera scrolling
Added server clock and day/night cycle
Added bounty system
Added gambling minigame
Added background maps
Added LAN server browser
Added options menu
Added hardcore mode
Added experimental bots
Added animations to stat changes and action results
Added status effects
Added Lua for scripting
Added various commands to dedicated server
Added alt-enter to toggle fullscreen/windowed mode
Switched to mingw for Windows builds
Reworked design tool to use python/ajax instead of apache/php

0.4.2 released

2015-09-29

Linux save data now in ~/.local/share/choria
Switched to c++11
Added windows release
Cleaned up project
Updated build system

0.4.1 released

2013-06-20

Fixed save/load path for mapeditor

0.4.0 released

2013-03-31

Added invisibility potion
Added mouse moving
Can now stop the server manually
Made player names visible in multiplayer
Updated to irrlicht 1.8
Save data now in %APPDATA%/choria for windows
Fixed skill bug
Fixed health/mana regen bug
Updated keybindings
Updated web design tool
Some rebalancing

0.3.2 released

2010-11-27

Made walking and combat faster
Reduced town portal time
Reduced network usage
Updated irrlicht to 1.7.2
Updated enet to 1.3.0
Updated sqlite

0.3.1 released

2010-02-02

Added more content: monsters, weapons, traders, etc.

0.3.0 released

2009-07-01

Added traders to the world
Ctrl+Click to split an item stack
Hit S to return to the last spawn point
Skill tooltips now show next-level stats
Rebalanced some skills

0.2.0 released

2008-10-24

Hit T to trade items/gold between players
Hit Escape to bring up main menu
Regen now works during battle
Added some more game content
Fixed linux framerate bug
Fixed some interface bugs

0.1.0 released

2008-07-17

First release