Dota 2 — Dota 2 Update - 7/1/2026

Over the past few days we've made various bug fixes and improvements:

Dark Carnival

• Playing Regular and Turbo games now reward Scrap tickets. 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. Regular games reward 2, Turbo games reward 1. Scrap is rewarded regardless of winning or losing.

• Seeing Stones can now be earned by playing Co-op Bot Matches on Hard and Unfair difficulties

• Candyworks now displays if an offered item is already owned

• The Dark Carnival Hero Filter button now shows a tooltip displaying the ticket requirement for the next reward

• Fixed the Ticket Trader not working after being unlocked for some players

• Fixed Ability Draft and cooperative bot matches not granting Tickets

• Fixed Candy Shop Rerolls granted from the Fortune Teller being capped by the weekly maximum

• Fixed Pick the Lock area gameplay changing with FPS

• Fixed Automaton Personas having the wrong hero chat wheel lines

General

• Players no longer need to select both high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game for Ranked Roles. Instead, solo players need to select at least one of the high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game.

• Innate abilities with an Area of Effect now correctly display their range in the world when hovering over the ability

• Fixed being able to enter the game without a hero in Captain's Mode if your team has picked a hero that is not available for random selection and no one has selected that hero at the end of the picking phase

• Fixed bots going after items near or under enemy towers

• Fixed bots getting stuck while dewarding

• Fixed being unable to close the in-game Coach dialog

• Fixed various server and client crashes

• Fixed being unable to spectate league matches

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause ability charges to get stuck for abilities with an Aghanim's Scepter upgrade when repeatedly dropping and picking up the Aghanim's Scepter

• Fixed recipes in stash automatically combining when receiving a shard from killing Tormentor

• Fixed Tower Glyph of Fortification Multishot attacks incorrectly having True Strike

• Fixed Dark Carnival Pies showing which hero is the real one versus an illusion

• Fixed sources of cleave benefitting from spell lifesteal

• Fixed Granite Golem healing more than expected with its aura

• Fixed Prowler's Shaman Desecrate decreasing more than the intended amount of base amor

• Fixed Wildwing Ripper's Toughness Aura not functioning as an aura

Items

• Soul Ring's temporary mana now displays as a separate segment in the mana bar while it's available

• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst not working if acquired while dead

• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst Spellover not being affected by Area of Effect bonuses

• Fixed Gem of True Sight radius not updating dynamically with Area of Effect changing values

• Fixed Hand of Midas proccing Conjurer's Catalyst's Spellover

• Fixed Harmonizer not considering abilities with charges on cooldown

• Fixed Ironwood Nut giving the wrong primary stat bonus for certain heroes

• Fixed Ironwood Nut's bonus stats sometimes not displaying properly

Heroes

• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction not interacting correctly with Grimstoke's Soulbind

• Fixed Arc Warden Tempest Double not copying Ironwood Nut permanent bonus stats

• Fixed Arc Warden's Flux with Aghanim's Scepter having a brief window where the target is no longer silenced if one Flux ends on the target while a second Flux is still active on the target

• Fixed Arc Warden's Runic Infusion sometimes not immediately calculating the bonus stats when activating a Power Rune

• Fixed Bane permanently losing Nightmare if he casts the ability on a debuff immune unit that then attacks a unit that has been Nightmared by Rubick

• Fixed Bane's Enfeeble affecting multiple enemies if the enemies were right on top of each other

• Fixed Centaur Warrunner's Hoof Stomp triggering magic stick before the ability has finished casting

• Fixed Centaur's Retaliate working on reflected damage

• Fixed Crystal Maiden's Glacier Guard triggering when using the Twin Gates

• Fixed Doom's Devour Aghanim's Shard upgrade not correctly granting the +15% Area of Effect bonuses to stolen creep abilities

• Fixed Ember Spirit's Fire Remnant's Shard Upgrade tooltip not specifying a Fire Remnant is spawned when Ember Spirit dies

• Fixed Faceless Void's level 20 talent displaying the wrong value for the bonus attack speed given during Chronosphere

• Fixed Hoodwink's Bushwhack not always applying the correct amount of total damage

• Fixed Invoker's Quas and Exort Shard upgrades not correctly applying on Rubick

• Fixed Io's level 15 talent "+50% Spirits Damage" having incorrect text in the talent tree

• Fixed Kunkka's level 10 talent slowing enemies via sources of cleave other than Tidebringer

• Fixed Lina gaining Fiery Soul Stacks when proccing Maelstrom or Mjollnir under Largo's Croak of Genius buff

• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear immediately dying when resummoned while a wraith due to Wraith King's Aghanim's Scepter

• Fixed Disgraced Regalia appearing in Spirit Bear's backpack instead of neutral slot when dying with Divine Regalia

• Fixed Spirit Bear getting his Divine Regalia back if he dies independent of Lone Druid

• Fixed Monkey King's Changing of the Guard being usable while Taunted

• Fixed Muerta's Supernatural having the incorrect number of max stacks

• Fixed Necrophos's Reaper Scythe gaining permanent stacks when killing illusions

• Fixed Oracle's False Promise Damage Indicator visual effects not properly calculating lethal damage

• Fixed Oracle's False Promise Damage Indicator visual effects not properly showing the heal visual effects if the target is going to be healed when the effect ends

• Fixed Oracle's level 25 talent "Fortune's End constantly Dispels" incorrectly piercing Debuff Immunity when affecting enemies

• Fixed Phantom Lancer Juxtapose Shard blocking creep camps permanently

• Fixed Primal Beast being able to damage enemies with Onslaught twice when queuing the Onslaught and stop commands after a forced movement during Pulverize

• Fixed Razor's Storm Surge Aghanim's Shard upgrade not always correctly applying

• Fixed Rubick not spawning an urnaconda when stealing it from Shadow Shaman

• Fixed Shadow Fiend being able to stack infinite souls using Feast of Souls with an Octarine Core

• Fixed Slardar's Corrosive Haze remaining duration being reduced when re-applied by Slithereen Crush with Aghanim's Shard upgrade

• Fixed Sniper's Keen Scope not being disabled by Break

• Fixed Storm Spirit's Overload ability with Aghanim's Shard applying 6 sources of damage instead of 3 if activating while already having an Overload buff

• Fixed Tinker's Keen Conveyance at level 3 sometimes targeting friendly heroes instead of the fountain when the ability was self cast

• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Vengeance Aura self-bonus sometimes getting lost after using Manta Style

• Fixed Warlock's level 15 talent "+8 Upheaval Attack Speed per second on Allies" causing Eldritch Summoning to create Imps when allies die

• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Cold Embrace with Aghanim's Shard casting a Splinter Blast on enemies if the enemies were right on top of each other

• Fixed Wraith King's Vampiric Spirit not turning Wraith King into a wraith if he levels up at the same time as dying