# Dungeon Defenders Dungeon Defenders Patch 10.6.9

- Product: Dungeon Defenders (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dungeon-defenders)
- Vendor: Chromatic Games
- Date: 2026-04-15
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/65800/view/514114620679520448
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dungeon-defenders/releases/2026-04-15-dungeon-defenders-patch-10.6.9

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- **added** — Unlock Defence Tavern by beating Tavern Incursion on Nightmare or Ruthless difficulty
- **added** — Made the Mummy colorable
- **changed** — Updated model and texture for Nessie
- **changed** — Reduced damage fall-off slightly on Chicken Baller's projectile
- **changed** — Reworked Teddy projectile to no longer do damage over time and instead fire a single projectile with splash damage, reducing overall damage by about 15%
- **changed** — Made secret boss on Jester's Spooktacular activate if you press all unique tiles once, with old activation methods still working
- **changed** — Made King's Game Slow Motion the same as Jester's Spooktacular Slightly Slow Motion
- **fixed** — Fixed Lover's Revenge accessory set bonus only needing 1 accessory instead of 3
- **fixed** — Adjusted position of Treadmill on a Treadmill to make it less likely to obscure vision when its scale is big
- **fixed** — Fixed rotation on brooches of EV 1.80 and EV 1.85
- **fixed** — Fixed some event items vfx only loading off-host on item re-equip
- **fixed** — Fixed Defense Unit exploit when building towers at the same time
- **fixed** — Fixed enemy lighting auras doing 5x damage on Ruthless
- **fixed** — Fixed Guardian Skeletal mesh having too many finger bones
- **fixed** — Removed Super Wyvern notification on Challenge: Death From Above
- **fixed** — Fixed City in the Cliffs Survival having a Ruthless weapon reward
- **fixed** — Downscaled every texture that was above 1024x1024 due to them only being rendered at 1024x1024 size
- **fixed** — Made Djinns inside lamps on Rumble in the Jungle and War of the Djinn not be targetable by towers
- **fixed** — Added dlls to prevent crash on audio driver switch
- **fixed** — Fixed 4p ability bug

##### Defence Tavern

Unlocked by beating Tavern Incursion on Nightmare or Ruthless difficulty. (Trigger is currently bugged, will be fixed next patch)

##### New Content

- Made the Mummy colorable

- Updated model/texture for Nessie

##### Balance Changes

- Reduced damage fall-off slightly on Chicken Baller's projectile

- Reworked the projectile of Teddy. No longer does Damage over Time, now single projectile with splash damage. Overall damage is reduced by about 15%

- Made secret boss on Jester's Spooktacular activate if you press all unique tiles once. Old activation methods still work (36 tiles activations / random on tile press)

- Made King's Game "Slow Motion" the same as Jester's Spooktacular "Slightly Slow Motion"

##### Bug Fixes

- Fixed Lover's Revenge accessory set bonus only needing 1 accessory instead of 3

- Adjusted position of Treadmill on a Treadmill to make it less likely to obscure your vision when its scale is big

- Fixed rotation on brooches of EV 1.80 and EV 1.85

- Fix for some event items vfx only loading off-host on item re-equip

- Defense Unit exploit fixed when building towers at the same time

- Fixed enemy lighting auras doing 5x damage on ruthless

- Fixed Guardian Skeletal mesh having too many finger bones

- Removed Super Wyvern notification on Challenge: Death From Above

- Fixed City in the Cliffs Survival having a Ruthless weapon reward

- Downscaled every texture that was above 1024x1024 due to them only being rendered at 1024x1024 size

- Made Djinns inside lamps on Rumble in the Jungle and War of the Djinn not be targetable by towers

- Added dlls to prevent crash on audio driver switch

- Another try at 4p ability bug fix

- Fixed issue on cutscenes being skipped off-host

- Added actual notification to Cupids timer on Challenge: Love Machine

- Fixed Gamma Correction in the Material editor causing negative colors to display wrong for Hero Icons

- Made equipment icons show properly when they have negative colors (Should fix a lot of event icons)

- Fix for Experimental 64 bit not properly working on all machines

- Fix for Experimental 64 bit PhysX crashes on Coastal Bazaar and some Crystalline maps

- Attempt at a fix for Game Select crystal UI locking up

For Etheria!