Brotato update Patch Notes – April 7, 2026

New difficulty – Nightmare

• New events during this difficulty
  • Environmental projectiles: bullets going through the level with increasing speed and quantity
  • Obscuring Fog: visibility is reduced during specific waves waves concerned → (5 or 6 or 7) (10 or 11 or 12) (16 or 17 or 18)
• New bestiary appearances during Nightmare
• Unlocked by beating the game on Danger 5
  Price inflation in nightmare going for a 0.1x per wave to 0.12x per wave
• Beating the Nightmare difficulty with a character grants a frame in the character selection menu

• New character – Wounded
  • Dies in one hit, starts with a Tardigrade and the stats of the Well-Rounded
  • Banned regen items are banned as they provide no benefit to this character
  • Unlocked by beating Nightmare difficulty with any character on any map
• New weapon – Rail Gun
  • The Rail Gun’s damage increases every 5 seconds as long as the player hasn’t been hit; resets at each wave
  • Unlocked by beating the game on any difficulty with Wounded

Changes

Quality of life

• Character selection now has a random zone option (if multiple zone are available), the zone is picked in the next screen
• Display who killed the character on death

• Upgrade icons are now affected by the accessibility color setting (positive color)

Starting Weapon

• Added RailGun as a starting weapon for Hunter, Ranger, Baby, Buccaneer, Apprentice, Jack, Renegade, Multitasker, Soldier, Builder, Vagabond and Ghost

Weapon Balancing

Since no balancing was made on weapons for a while, some of them felt like they were left behind and not viable anymore, especially in early waves and particularly in nightmare difficulty. So, we made some changes (buffs) to a selection.
Here is the list:

• Anchor
  Reduce price : 51/95/190 to 48/90/175.
  Increase Curse scaling : 65%/90%/125% to 75%/100%/125%
• Brick
  Materials dropped increased: 10/30/60/120 -> 10/30/75/200
• Cacti Club
  Increase Ranged Damage scaling: 50%/60%/70%/80% to 60%/70%/80%/100%.
  Base Damage Increased: 10/20/30/50 to 15/20/35/60. Spines damage: 1/1/1/1 buffed into 1/2/3/4
• Excalibur
  Negative armor reduced: -3 -> -2
• Flaming Brass Knuckles
  Base damage increased: 16/32/64 -> 20/40/80
  Burn damage increased: 8×5/12×6/15×7 -> 10×5/15×6/18×7
• Ghost Flint
  Damage increased: 6/9/12/18 to 6/9/12/20 (gives more back to tier 4, and makes it exactly half the damage of ghost axe, for symmetry)
  Range Increased: 150/160/170/180 to 170/180/190/200
• Hammer
  Now has 10%/15%/20% knockback piercing (See harpoon’s ability)
  Base damage increased: 35/70/110 -> 40/75/120
  Cost decreased: 51/95/190 -> 46/86/151
• Hand
  Harvesting Increased: 3/6/9/18 -> 3/6/12/25
• Hatchet
  Reduce price: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91.
  Base Damage increased: 5/10/20/40 to 7/11/22/45
  Attack Speed Scaling changed increased: 15%/15%/15%/15% to 20/20/20/20
  Base cooldown increased: 9/7/5/3 -> 9/8/7/6 (nerf)
• Mace
  Tier 2 : crit chance 3 → 4 %
  Tier 3 : crit chance 3 → 8 %
  Tier 4 : crit chance 3 → 12 %
• Knife
  Base Damage increased: 6/9/12/20 ->  9/13/18/25
  Price Decreased: 15/31/61/122 to 10/22/45/91
• Plank
  Triple Scaling increased: 50/60/70/80% to 60/70/80/90
  Base damage increased: 10/15/20/25 to 10/15/20/30
  Explosion chance increased: 25/30/35/40% to 25/30/40/50%
• Powerfist
  Base damage increased: 40/60 to 40/80
  Explosion Size increased: 0.75/1 -> 1/1.25
• Quarterstaff
  Price reduced: 17/34/66/130 to 15/31/61/122
• Screwdriver
  Range increased: 125 -> 135
  Crit Multiplier increased: x2 -> x2/x2.15/x2.3/x2.5 (matches scissors)
  Engineering Scaling Increased: 50%/50%/50%/50% -> 50%/60%/70%/80%
• Spiky Shield
  Armor scaling decreased: 100%/125%/150%/200% -> 80/100/130/170
• Sword
  Base Damage increased: 25/40/60 -> 30/45/65
• Trident
  Price reduced: 52 to 49 at tier 2.
• Thunder Sword
  Base damage increased: 30/60 -> 40/75
• Warhammer
  Base Damage increased 100/175 to 100/200.
  Engineering scaling increased 100%/150% to 150%/200%.
  Changed Blunt/tool tags
• Blunderbuss
  Damage decreased: 25/50/80 -> 22/45/70
  Range damage scaling increased: 100%/125%/150% -> 110/135/170
• Flute
  Cooldown : 60/55/50/45 -> 50/45/40/35
  Damage  tier1 5 -> 6
• Medical Gun
  Tier 1 : cooldown 40 → 35  lifesteal 0,4 → 0,5
  Tier 2 : cooldown 34 → 30  lifesteal 0,45 → 0,55
  Tier 3 : cooldown 27 → 25  lifesteal 0,5 → 0,6
  Tier 4 : cooldown 20 → 17  lifesteal 0,6 → 0,65
• Minigun
  Damage increased: 1/3 to 2/5
  Pierce Damage falloff changed: 50%/50% to 25%/25%
  Cooldown Changed: 3/2 to 3/3
• Obliterator
  Damage increased: 250/350 to 250/400.
• Pistol
  Crit chance increased: 5%/10%/15%/20% to 10%/15%/20%/25%
• Potato Gun
  Ranged Damage Scaling increased: 25%/25%/25% -> 40/40/40
  Cooldown nerfed: 15/10/3 -> 15/10/5.
  Base damage increased: 1/1/1 -> 3/5/10.
• Shuriken
  Base Damage increased: 6/8/10/15 to 7/9/11/15.
• Taser
  Damage increased: 6/6/6/12 -> 7/7/7/14
• Wand
  Pierce Increased: 0/0/0/0 -> 1/1/1/1
  Price decreased: 12/26/52/105 -> 10/22/45/91

Items 

• Kraken Eye
  Increase Curse amount and Max HP to 15.
• Pile of Books
  Crit increased: 3%
  Engineering Increased: 3
  Moved it to tier 2. Decreasing price to 60.

Fixes

• Fixed misspelled word “Haustierschaden” in German
• Item appearances are no longer displayed in the character selection menu when “no item appearance” is checked in options
• Fixed Curse stat — it can no longer be negative and is now clamped to 0