Demo Patch Notes for 2026-04-04 (Permanent Spellcrafting) — Hermit Steam update #12346

Today's update is a small patch, but includes major infrastructure changes that will be the backbone of the next upcoming major game update: Permanent spellcrafting. The next major update will include significant changes to spellcrafting, and many spells will no longer be consumed each time they are used (i.e., craft once, use forever)These permanent spells will be powerful, one-off craftables with special magic abilities that can be re-used indefinitely without losing the item (with varying length of cooldown periods and/or some magic attribute pool cost, depending on the spell). Crafting them will require special drops from rare enemies.Added support for magic ability cooldowns for spells that are reusable (not consumed each use, but have a cooldown timer between uses)Added new 2D UI elements to the HUD for the cooldown functionality; active cooldowns will be displayed in the bottom ri...