Halloween & Relic Update [Ver 1.3.0]

Hello. This is the <TBH: Task Bar Hero> development team.Update 1.3.0 is now live, featuring Plaguelands improvements, the new Relic system, a Halloween event,...

News article about Halloween & Relic Update [Ver 1.3.0] - Task Bar Hero News
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Oct 22, 2026

Hello. This is the < TBH: Task Bar Hero > development team.

Update 1.3.0 is now live, featuring Plaguelands improvements, the new Relic system, a Halloween event, the new Material Stash DLC, and much more.

Please see below for details.

※ Please note that there may be a queue of up to 1 hour for this update. New items will become tradable on the Market 1 hour after the update.

※ Server maintenance is scheduled for Tuesday, October 27. The detailed schedule will be announced in a separate notice.

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Plaguelands Improvements

  • The Plaguelands stage tooltips in the Portal UI now display the beneficial properties granted by each stage, including Plaguelands-exclusive drops and increased chances of obtaining high-grade items compared to normal regions.

  • Added 24 new Plaguelands achievements.

  • Plaguelands Hell/Torment Common Treasure Chest: 5 min -> 4 min

  • Plaguelands Hell/Torment Stage Treasure Chest: 7 min -> 6 min

  • Plaguelands Nightmare Common Treasure Chest drop chance: 1.75x the previous rate

  • Plaguelands Hell Common Treasure Chest drop chance: 2.5x the previous rate

  • Plaguelands Hell Stage Treasure Chest drop chance: 1.5x the previous rate

  • Plaguelands Torment Common Treasure Chest drop chance: 3x the previous rate

  • Plaguelands Torment Stage Treasure Chest drop chance: 1.66x the previous rate

Relics Added

  • Added the Relic system, which enhances the overall abilities of your party members.

  • The Relic UI becomes available once you have cleared the Plaguelands at least once.

  • Contaminated Reliquaries and Contaminated Relics can be obtained at a certain chance from Plaguelands Treasure Chests and Contaminated Act Boss Treasure Chests.

  • Offer a Contaminated Reliquary to the Cube: Offering recipe to obtain a random Reliquary.

  • Each Reliquary has random Inherent Stats, and their stat effects apply to all party members.

  • Reliquaries of Uncommon grade or higher have Relic Slots of random colors. Each Relic Slot can hold a Relic of the matching color.

  • Certain Relics have a Resonance Effect. Equipping Relics whose colors meet the resonance condition activates the Resonance Effect, granting special stats to all party members.

  • Reliquaries can be synthesized via the Cube: Synthesis recipe.

  • Offer a Contaminated Relic to the Cube: Offering recipe to obtain a random Relic.

  • Each Relic has its own specific Inherent Stats, and their stat effects apply to all party members.

  • Each Relic has a color and can only be equipped in a Relic Slot of the matching color.

  • White Relics can be equipped in Relic Slots of any color.

  • Relics can be synthesized via the Cube: Synthesis recipe.

Cube - New Attunement Recipe

  • A new Attunement recipe has been added to the Cube.

  • The Attunement recipe consumes Gold to partially change the stats of Reliquaries and Relics.

  • For Reliquaries, Attunement rerolls the colors of their Relic Slots. All colors have an equal chance of appearing.

  • For Relics, Attunement rerolls the value range of their Inherent Stats.

  • The Attunement cost of each item increases with every attempt and stops increasing once it reaches the maximum.

Halloween Event

  • During the event period, you can enter the event stage Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon from the Portal UI.

  • Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon is available in Nightmare, Hell, and Torment difficulties, and each entry consumes 1 Jack-o's Ticket of that difficulty. During the event period, tickets can be obtained at a low chance from Treasure Chests and Act Boss Treasure Chests in normal regions and the Plaguelands, and higher-difficulty chests yield higher-difficulty tickets.

  • Clearing stage 3-10 of a difficulty allows you to enter Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon of that difficulty. (e.g. Clearing Nightmare 3-10 unlocks Nightmare Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon)

  • Each entry into Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon awards up to 10 Halloween Treasure Chests, and defeating the boss awards 1 Halloween boss chest.

  • Halloween chests have a high chance of dropping Jack-o' Candy along with equipment and materials. Jack-o' Candy can be used in Offerings to obtain higher-grade candy or equipment. However, Jack-o' Candy cannot be traded.

  • Halloween chests are stored separately from normal-region and Plaguelands Treasure Chests, and you can store up to 40 each of regular and boss chests. (However, Rune effects do not apply.)

  • If you have tickets, you can set the stage to be retried automatically after clearing.

※ If your Halloween chest storage is insufficient, a warning will appear in the entry confirmation window, and entering in this state may cause you to miss some chests. Auto-retry will not proceed while storage is insufficient, so be sure to open your chests before entering again.

- Event Period After the update ~ November 11, 2026 (Wed) 23:59 (UTC) ※ Once the event period ends, you will no longer be able to enter Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon or obtain Jack-o's Tickets and Jack-o' Candy.

Halloween Pets

  • Added 2 Halloween event pets.

  • Pumpkin Candy: Obtained by defeating 500 Jack-o' Skeleton Warriors. (Gold gained from defeating monsters +1%)

  • Pumpkin Ghost: Obtained by defeating 500 Jack-o'-Lantern Ghosts. (EXP gained +1%)

  • Jack-o' Skeleton Warriors and Jack-o'-Lantern Ghosts only appear in Jack-o'-Lantern Canyon, so be sure to obtain these pets during the event period.

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New Halloween Outfits

  • To celebrate Halloween, new outfits have been added for 6 heroes.

  • Each hero's new outfit can be purchased via the Outfits button in the Hero UI or in the Store.

  • Applying an outfit changes the illustration as well as the in-game character image and animations.

  • Purchasing all 6 at once with the Halloween Festival Bundle gives you a discount of about 25%. (The bundle can only be purchased if you do not own any of the Halloween Festival outfits.)

※ If a purchased item is not applied correctly, please click the 'Refresh Purchase Info' button in the 'Store' menu or restart the game.

Cube - Synthesis Recipe Improvements

  • Added a 'Fixed Level' option to Synthesis recipes. When 'Fixed Level' is checked, Auto Fill only uses the recipe of the set level. (The recipe will no longer change automatically during Auto Fill.)

  • Changed the Synthesis success rates for Immortal and Arcana grade regular equipment and material items.

  • Immortal grade -> Arcana grade chance: increased from 49.9% -> 80%

  • Arcana grade -> Beyond grade chance: increased from 33.28% -> 50%

Normal Region Treasure Chest Minimum Wait Time Adjustment

  • Common Treasure Chests in normal regions at Region Level 15 and all subsequent regions: 4 min -> 3 min

  • Stage Treasure Chests in normal regions at Region Level 15 and all subsequent regions: 6 min -> 5 min

New Material Stash DLC

  • Added the Material Stash DLC, which lets you store materials conveniently.

  • The Material Stash can hold Decoration materials, Engraving materials, Inscription materials, Crafting materials, Soulstones, and commemorative coins.

  • Each material item has its own dedicated slot, and each dedicated slot can hold up to 999 items.

  • If you own the Material Stash, items moved from your inventory to storage with the bulk store feature will be stored in the Material Stash first.

Other Changes

  • Added 3 new Runes that increase offline EXP rewards.

  • Added 2 new Runes that increase Act Boss EXP rewards.

  • Adjusted the EXP increase of 1 Rune that increases Act Boss EXP rewards: +2000 -> +10000 per level

  • Changed the duration of rocks summoned by the Slayer's Ground Slam skill: 3 sec -> 10 sec

  • Added a cross-promotion banner at the bottom of the Offline Reward window shown at game start.

  • Added 1 cross-promotion banner to the Settings window.

  • Added the 'Include Locked Items When Sorting' option to the Settings - Other page.

  • Added an option to the Settings - Other page to disable the display of Gold gained, damage, and healing text.

  • Added the ability to scroll the inventory by pressing the PageUp and PageDown keys.

  • When cooldown reduction effects are applied, skill tooltips now display the reduced cooldown. Press the Alt key while the tooltip is displayed to view the value before reduction.

  • When challenging an Act Boss for the first time, clearing it now advances you to the next difficulty even if repeat mode is on.

  • You can now change the character selection during the stage clear animation.

  • Stackable material items are now stacked when sorting items.

  • The game can now be played even when the Steam connection is unstable or Steam servers are under maintenance. However, if there is a problem with the Steam connection, use of the Trade Ship and Mailbox will be restricted.

  • The additional Trade Ship slots are no longer disabled when the Trade Ship DLC is disabled in the game's properties in the Steam Library.

  • Improved camera movement that was not smooth at high movement speeds.

  • Improved awkward parts of the Ranger's running animation.

  • Improved the awkward background of the server item verification result popup.

  • When an outfit cannot be purchased, the purchase button now displays 'Unavailable'.

  • Improved the awkward design of the confirm button in the Offline Reward UI.

  • Improved the Cube level-up effect, which looked unnatural by extending beyond the Cube slider.

  • Improved an issue where item special property descriptions overflowed their area in some languages.

  • Improved the text displayed during server maintenance to read more naturally.

  • To support recovery in emergencies such as item loss and to improve our service, we have added logs for key game activities such as currency and item changes. Accordingly, the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy have been revised to v1.6, and you can review the full text on the consent screen shown the first time you launch the game after the update.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Great Success (chance to become Cosmic grade) rate was not displayed when synthesizing Celestial grade items.

  • Fixed an issue where the Region Level penalty was not applied to Offline Reward EXP.

  • Fixed an issue where some Hunter and Slayer equipment dropped even with the DLC disabled.

  • Fixed an issue where the Area of Effect increase property was not applied to the Priest's Sanctuary skill.

  • Fixed an issue where critical hits were not applied to the area damage of the Priest's Wrath of Heaven skill.

  • Fixed an issue where the Priest's special property that triggers the Heal skill when using Wrath of Heaven did not trigger if the Heal skill had not been learned.

  • Fixed an issue where rocks summoned by the Slayer's Ground Slam skill could not be destroyed by the Ground Slam skill.

  • Fixed an issue where repeatedly refreshing while there were items in the Steam Inventory created invalid mail.

  • Fixed an issue where unclaimable mail was occasionally created.

  • Fixed an issue where the game screen could be moved off the monitor while a UI window was open.

  • Fixed an issue where opening multiple Act Boss Treasure Chests at once caused error 6002, after which no more Act Boss Treasure Chests could be opened.

  • Fixed an issue where locked material items could be used as Decoration/Engraving/Inscription materials in the Cube.

  • Fixed an issue where resistance values were displayed incorrectly after changing the hero placement order or restarting a stage.

  • Fixed an issue where changing the language after selecting the Plaguelands in the Portal UI incorrectly displayed the Plaguelands as locked.

  • Fixed an issue where material items were not recognized as Synthesis Auto Fill targets if another item of the same type was locked in a different slot.

  • Fixed an issue where, in certain situations, the unlock button icon was not displayed even though a locked Cube recipe could be unlocked.

  • Fixed an issue where the Trade Ship tooltip message was hidden when the Portal UI was open.

  • Fixed an issue where the soul and soul link effects of Soul Snatch did not disappear when leaving the stage while the 2-10 Act Boss was using its Soul Snatch skill.

  • Fixed an issue where, when the 2-10 Act Boss used its Soul Snatch skill, the souls displayed did not reflect the heroes' equipped skins.

  • Fixed an issue where the Demon Legion Commander's image flickered during its attack animation.

  • Fixed an issue where the text shown when hovering over the Act Boss escape portal was not translated.

  • Fixed an issue where stage names were not displayed correctly in the Battle Record window when clearing the Plaguelands.

  • Fixed an issue where the cooldown display UI on the hero screen stopped working after opening and closing the Trade Ship window.

  • Fixed an issue where the Unyielding Will animation was applied late when the Knight died during Shield Charge.

Other News

- The Nugem Studio Publisher Sale is now on. ※ Period: Oct 21, 10:00 – Nov 4 (PDT) https://store.steampowered.com/developer/NugemStudio/sale/NugemPublisherSale2026

- New Material Stash DLC released

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Thank you. < TBH: Task Bar Hero > Development Team

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