Version History

Monster Train was officially released on May 20th, 2020 and since has seen a number of small and large changes. The main purpose of this article is to document the history of the game and archive all Past Patch Notes.

## Monster Train (1.0)

*See: Monster Train*

Monster Train was officially released on May 20th, 2020. This was the official launch after a long time of Beta testing and balancing.

### Wild Mutations (1.1)

Wild Mutations was released on 15th of July, 2020. It was the first major Update to Monster Train and mainly introduced 35 new Mutators as well as 15 Expert Challenges, both of them now also playable in a standard run. Additionally Card Frames and the Comunity Challenges selection screen were introduced. Besides that it was the first major balance overhaul for the game.

### Friends and Foes (1.2)

Friends and Foes was released on 4th of September, 2020. It was the second major Update to Monster Train and added the Exiled Champions, Talos, Archus and Seraph the Patient as its main features. Additionally some new artifacts, some new Expert Challenges and the personal records page were introduced to the game.

### Herzal's Workshop (1.3)

Herzal's Workshop was released on 22nd of October, 2020. It's main feature was the addition of official mod support as well as time limited Halloween cosmetic updates. Further some accessibility options for color blindness and generally the option to change the color of Status Effects was added. One noteworthy change was the moving of Bone Dog's Favor to its own Concealed Caverns Event.

### Controller and Keyboard Update (1.4)

Controller and Keyboard Update was released on 10th of December, 2020. It's main feature was the addition of gameplay and keyboard support to be able to navigate the game completely without a mouse. This was in preparation for the release on XBox GamePass. Another noteworthy addition was the reworking of the Champion Path Cultivating for the Sentient as well as Awoken Hollow.

## The Last Divinity (2.0)

*See: The Last Divinity (DLC)*

2.0 was released alongside The Last Divinity on 25th of March, 2021. The Last Divinity was the first DLC released for Monster Train. The 2.0 Patch featured balance changes, a Covenant Ranks rework, as well as a rework for Morsels mainly.

### Post DLC Patches (2.x)

The patches following The Last Divinity were mostly filled with bug fixes instead of new content, as such they also did not receive special names.

2.1 was released on 19th of May, 2021, one day ahead the 1 year anniversary of the release for Monster Train. This patch mostly contained some balance changes and bug fixes in the aftermath of the first DLC release with 2.0. Some of the most noteworthy changes was a complete overhaul of For the Greater Good.

2.2 was released on 8th of October, 2021, and mostly features bug fixes and performance improvements that were backported from the Switch release.

## Complete Patch Notes

The following is a list of Patches and Updates released for Monster Train. This list includes Public Patches that are available for the general public and does not include Patches that were only available for beta testers, developers and preview builds that were released to streamers and reviewers ahead of public release. There are two types of releases, Beta releases, that are also referred to as "the public test train" by the developers and releases to the Main branch. Patch Notes for the Beta branch usually refer to changes over all versions and Patch Notes for the Main branch refer to changes since the last Main Branch.

\*Version numbering in the scheme "1.2.3", refers to the third version in the second major update of the first release. This version numbering scheme was adopted with version 1.0.10, and versions before were by the time of their release only referred to by their Build number. The Build number refers to the Windows version (XBox might differ).

\*\*12652 (Xbox), 12661 (Steam), 12671 (GOG)