Monster Train 2 (Switch): all the updates (latest: Lost Arsenal)
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Monster Train 2 – Ver. ??? (Lost Arsenal)
- Release date: September 10th/11th 2025
- Patch notes:
New Clanless Equipment and Rooms
- Echo Vault
- Weapons Cache
- Exile’s Diadem
- Iron-tongue
- Stasis Crystal
New Monster Train 2 clan cards
- Heavensward – Banished Clan
- Smelted Treasure – Pyreborne
- Dusk Mantle – Luna Coven
- The Great Decay – Underlegion
- Mix-a-Lot – Lazarus League
Other New Features & Quality of Life
- Added “Titan Trial Default” option to gameplay settings to optionally automatically enable all Titan Trials. Added a tutorial to explain this.
- Added new Titan Cup that tracks the win streak for Titan victories at Covenant 10.
- When using controller or keyboard controls, added ability to move room targeted cards around so you can move it out of the way if it is blocking something. Added a tutorial to explain this functionality.
- Made it so the battle intro screen enemy unit stats take into account mutators and other gameplay effects beyond Covenant levels.
- Added visual UI difference in Dragon’s Hoard to differentiate rewards with one artifact from an artifact draft.
- Added a copy sharecode button that copies it to the clipboard when playing on PC desktop.
Banished Changes
- Penitent’s Bloodsuit cost reduced from 1 >>> 0.
- Spike of the Banished increased from 3X >>> 4X Valor.
- Fixed various behavior and communication bugs related to the interaction of Celestial Cascade and Fel’s Unchained upgrade path.
- Fixed ‘Wyngh’s Radiance’ not fully showing effects of Doublestack upgrade on card text.
- Fixed keyboard/controller Flight ability target selection glitch when room is at max unit capacity.
Pyreborne Changes
- Miser stats updated from 3/9 >>> 8/8.
- Gilded Egg and the variants can now attack if given an attack bonus.
- Fixed Pyreborne’s Insignia persisting until the end of battle instead of unit death.
- Fixed ‘Pay Off’ spells rigged with Holystone upgrades incorrectly scaling the amount of bonus Pyre healing.
- Pyreblooded cost reduced from 2 >>> 1.
- Devilish Details pyre damage decreased from 10 >>> 8.
Luna Coven Changes
- Fixed Scrivener ability Spellweave cost reduction not stacking.
- Nightingale updated “New Moon: Multistrike 1 >>> 2.”
- Silver Empress stats updated from 15/10, 20/15, 30/20 >>> 20/20, 25/25, 30/30. Silver Empress I conduit increased from 15 >>> 20.
- Hexscalation cost reduced from 2 >>> 1.
- Updated Hierophant Arduhn. “Silent units gain double armor” >>> “Silent units gain +1/2/3 ATK.”
- Fixed spells copied when units with Conduit are present incorrectly doubling the Conduit bonus.
Underlegion Changes
- Sporesinger Madame Lionsmane III updated “When a unit gains Decay, it gains +4 >>> +5 stacks.”
- Underlegion Mossystone now additionally grants +10 HP on top of the existing 10 Regen.
- Headsman III ATK increased from 100 >>> 160.
- Executioner Bolete upgrade line updated from: “Harvest: Gain Regen 2/3/5 and Rage 2/3/5.” >>> “Siphon: Spawn 2/2/3. Troop adds +1/2/3 HP per stack.” Stats updated from 10/30, 30/60, 50/120 >>> 30/20, 50/50, 80/100.
- Fixed bug where Evolutionary Instinct would count hidden statuses that drive abilities and some equipment.
- Fixed bug where Evolutionary Instinct might trigger multiple times when adding statuses, especially on spawn.
- Fixed an issue with Funguy incorrectly resetting equipment cooldowns when adding Troop stacks.
Lazarus League Changes
- Pincushion stats increased from 6/6 >>> 12/12.
- Organ Harvester ember cost increased 1 >>> 2.
- Increased the cost of Test Subject Alpha from 2 to 3.
- It’s Alive ATK decreased from +10 >>> +7.
- Baron Grael Learning Limb stats updated from 15/25, 30/40, 60/60 >>> 10/25, 20/45, 40/80. Permanent ATK granted to equipment increased from 2/4/6 >>> 3/6/9.
- Baron Grael It Hungers HP reduced from 25/45/85 >>> 20/40/80.
Clanless Changes
- Savage Spirit now grants 40 HP.
- Wyngh’s Spirit HP increased from 70 >>> 75.
- Heart of the Pact Pyre Heart HP increased from 55 >>> 65.
- Made Pyre Heart Savagery upgrade “unique” so it isn’t copied by Fecundity.
- Freezestone now grants -1 cost.
- Benevolence ability updated from “Restore friendly units to full health” >>> “Restore friendly units to full health and grant +5 Max HP.”
- Changed Enchant effects to use blue style ‘state’ display icons.
- Fixed Triboulet artifact incorrectly removing health from purged Ephemeral cards.
- Updated flavor text order in TitanEntropy event to match the order of the choices.
- Fixed bug where Curse of Forgetfulness could trigger from unit abilities.
- Changed Fecundity upgrade behavior so that the card copy mechanic only happens once. It had to be done.
- Fixed ‘Emot Tome’ incorrectly copying cost bonus from ‘Ancient Roots’ onto its Ephemeral duplicate card.
General Bug Fixes & Text Clarification
- Fixed exploit where cards that reduce a unit’s Max HP could be used on the Titan fight to kill an individual Titan without the others being at 1 HP.
- Fixed bug where various persistent effects granted by equipment/rooms/enchantments would be stripped off a unit upon removal of those things even if the unit had those effects previously already because it was provided by spells or was innate. Some examples: Trample, Quick, Silence, etc.
- Changed equipment merging to no longer allow two pieces of equipment with abilities to be merged.
- Updated Clan selection dialog to properly highlight currently selected Clan and Pyre Heart.
- Updated hitbox of trial and start battle buttons in battle intro screen to reduce the likelihood of misclicks.
- Updated Mute and Silence tooltips to specify they will block “Enchants” from applying as well.
- Fixed Heavenfall card saying “Russian>><<” in the middle of the card in that language (and others).
- Fixed room navigation tooltip not showing up when you switch from mouse to keyboard.
- Win streaks now have tooltips in the run summary screen.
- Fixed rewards and cards from drawing over the deck screen during events.
- Fixed sometimes clicking on a unit ability putting the game in a bad state.
- Fixed bug where Slay triggers would not always happen if the unit with the trigger died or was reanimated simultaneously.
- Fixed issue where a unit in Stasis could take damage from statuses if they were given to the unit before entering Stasis.
- Fixed ‘Vola’s Tuning Fork’ bonus being incorrectly duplicated by artifacts that copy cards.
- Fixed Graft + Jack in the Box interaction if the box gets duplicated or upgraded with Endless.
- Fixed bug where Loamcoat’s Propagate was impacted by Dualism.
- Fixed not being able to generate a Community Challenge from a custom run.
- Fixed clicking on ability and activating other unit’s ability under certain conditions.
- Fixed quitting while card draft open and resuming showing different cards.
- Fixed battle messages (e.g. “Hand full”) sometimes coming up at the end of continue or undo.
- Fixed units with Endless going to the Consume pile when killed on the same turn as a Cardless unit.
- Added tutorial that appears when replacing an ability on a unit to explain that a unit can only have one ability.
- Fixed wrong enemies shown in pre-battle screen on Quicksilver Cherubs (2), Penance Seekers (4), and Corrupted Crusade (5).
- Fixed soft lock if no units in deck, and winning large wing in Clipped Wings story event.
- Fixed soft lock when no movement keys are bound and card movement tutorials are displayed.
- Added capacity tooltips to cards that were missing it.
- Made some under the hood changes to reduce memory leaks.
- Improved English text consistency on a variety of content.
- Integrated various translation improvements into Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.
SPOILERS
New Monster Train clan cards
- Rage Room – Hellhorned
- Oldgrowth – Awoken
- Frostpiercer – Stygian Guard
- Resin Blades – Melting Remnant
- Glutton’s Maw – Umbra
Hellhorned Changes
- Fortify updated from Spell >>> Equipment. Renamed to “Fortified Pauldrons”. “Apply Armor 8” >>> “Armor 6. Resolve: Gain Armor 6.”
- The Unbroken Horn artifact’s text updated to reflect it also conserves Ember in the Deployment Phase.
- Imperialist Shardtail Queen effect updated to be an ability: “Action: Kill all Imp units. Deal 20 damage per Imp to enemy units.” >>> Ability: Imp Toss. CD 1. “Kill all Imp units. Deal 20/40/60 damage per Imp to enemy units”.
- Wrathful Prince. Stats updated from 15/15, 25/25, 40/40 >>> 25/25, 35/50, 45/75. “Revenge: Gain Rage 3/4/6 >>> 4/5/6.”
- Reaper Prince. Added Ability: Culling. CD 6/3/1. “Attack immediately.”
- Branding Rite damage decreased from 5 >>> 3.
- Imp-olate damage increased from 20x imps >>> 25x imps.
- Consumer of Crowns cost reduced from 8 >>> 4. Updated effect from: “Costs -1 EMBER per Imp unit in your deck.” >>> Ability: Warlord’s Tithe. “Sacrifice Imp. Attack immediately. Cooldown 2.”
- Hellhorned Furystone updated from Rage 10 >>> Rage 12.
- Inferno damage increased from 100 >>> 120.
- Molting Imp damage increased from 8 >>> 10.
- Vent damage increased from 3X >>> 5X.
- Alloy of the Ancients armor increased from 25 >>> 30.
- Horn Break damage increased from 5 >>> 8.
- Spike of the Hellhorned armor and rage increased from 3X >>> 4X.
- Shardtail Royalty stats updated from 10/10, 10/20, 10/40 >>> 10/15, 15/30, 25/60.
Awoken Changes
- Awaken updated from Spell >>> Room. “Awaken” >>> “Awakening Thicket”. “Restore 40 health. Apply Regen 3.” >>> “Friendly units have +20 Max HP and restore 10 health on Resolve.”
- Husk Hermit HP increased from 30 >>> 35. Added new effect: “Revenge: +3 ATK.”
- Animus of Speed new ability “Swiftshot: Attack any enemy immediately.”
- Thornlord Wyldenten. Converted effect into an ability. “Summon: Add 3 Sting spells with Frozen to your hand.” >>> “Ability: Needlebloom. (Add 3 Sting spells to your hand).”
- Awoken’s Rail Spike updated to not allow additional card draw during the current turn after casting to prevent infinites.
- Changed ‘Edge Prior’ unit’s healing spell cost bonus to also include Regen spells.
- Vinemother updated from “Resolve: Add a Sting spell to your hand” >>> “Ability: Vinewrath (Add 2 Sting Spells to your hand. CD 2.). End of Turn: Sting Spells in your deck gain +4 magic power.”
- Spreading Spores. Regen 2 and Spikes 2 >>> Regen 3 and Spikes 3. Now also restores 3 health
- Awoken Hollow Max HP increased from 15 >>> 25.
- Thorned Hollow Max HP increased from 15 >>> 25. Spikes on Rejuvenate increased from 3 >>> 4.
- Steelsinger buffed from permanent +1 ATK>>> permanent +3 ATK on Rejuvenate.
- Updated Ensnare to be able to target any unit.
- Focused Growth. “Restore 25 health. Draw +2 next turn” >>> “Restore 20 health, twice. Draw +2 next turn.”
- Restore regen increased from 1 >>> 2.
- Razorsharp Edge ATK increased from 10 >>> 12.
- Restoring Retreat cost increased from 1 >>> 2. HP restored increased from 10 >>> 25.
- Sharpen. +4 ATK and Spikes 5 >>> +6 ATK and Spikes 6
- Wildwood Sap. “Apply Regen 5” >>> “Apply Regen 4 and +4 max HP”
Stygian Guard Changes
- Siren’s Song updated from Spell >>> Room card. Effect now happens at the start of combat and only affects non-boss units. Cost increased 1 >>> 2.
- Cuttlehex updated from: “End of Turn: Apply Frozen to a random card in hand” >>> “Ability: Freeze Ray: Apply Frozen to a card in hand.”
- Titanchannel Solgard updated to be an ability. Stats reduced from 60/60, 120/20, 250/250 >>> 0/5. “Incant: Gain Shard 1. At 4 Shard stacks, remove Stasis.” >>> “Incant: Gain Shard 1. Ability: Resurgence. (Remove Stasis and gain +6/10/15 ATK/Max HP per shard.)”.
- Handheld Totem Tethys new ability “Runespeak: Draw a damage spell and apply +5/10/20 magic power.” Cooldown 3.
- Updated Offering Monument: “Incant: -5 Max HP. Draw 1.” >>> “Incant: Draw +1 next turn.” HP reduced from 40 >>> 1.
- Updated Gifts for a Guard to have Consume and only target damage spells.
- Deep Offering’s Ember cost increased from 2 >>> 3.
- Updated Energy Siphon to be able to target any unit.
- Titan’s Gratitude damage increased from 35 >>> 60.
- Fixed Ancient Synergy counting ephemeral spell cards as “in deck”.
- Unnamed Tome mute reduced from Mute 5 >>> Mute 3.
- Token of a Traitor damage increased from 2 >>> 3.
Umbra Changes
- Crucible Extension updated from Spell >>> Room card. “+1 capacity on this floor” >>> “+4 capacity.”
- Engine Upgrade updated from Spell >>> Room card. Cost reduced from 1 >>> 0.
- Morsel Made Atk and HP on Gorge increased from 2 >>> 4.
- Teeth of Gold now damages the lowest health enemy unit instead of the back enemy unit.
- Crucible Collector HP increased from 20 >>> 35.
- Overgorger HP increased from 25 >>> 35.
- Forever Consumed damage increased from 40 >>> 80.
- Blazing Bolts damage at all tiers increased from 40 >>> 60.
- Mine Collapse can now also target friendly units.
- Alloyed Construct now starts with Fuel 2.
- Cultivate effects no longer target Morsel units.
- Glutton Penumbra stats increased from 20/20 (all ranks) >>> 20/20, 35/35, 50/50.
- Made Retch only return units to hand, and not overflow to the draw pile when hand is full.
- Fixed bug where Superfood Primordium would give double its status effects to a unit with Dualism.
- Stalwart Snack III stats updated from 3/3 >>> 10/10.
Melting Remnant Changes
- Dark Calling Rektor Flicker effect updated to be an ability: “Resolve: Reform 2 random units and apply +10/15/25 ATK.” >>> Ability: Cryptcall. CD 1. “Reform 3 random units and apply +10/15/25 ATK.”
- Little Fade path Little Icarus starting Spikes increased from 5 >>> 7.
- Votivary updated from “Extinguish: Draw 1.” >>> “Extinguish: Draw 2 next turn.”
- Changed Lady of the House to have +5 ATK for every stack of Burnout. Base ATK reduced from 45 >>> 25.
- Memories of the Melted updated from Spell >>> Room. Renamed to “Memorial for the Melted”. “Gain 1 EMBER for each friendly unit death this battle.” >>> “Friendly units have Endless.” Cost increased from 0 >>> 1.
- Hallowed Halls increased to 3 cost.
- Fixed bug where Resin Block would not interact with Reanimate correctly.
- Resin Removal cost increased from 1 >>> 2.
- Draff ATK increased from 10 >>> 15.
- Legion of Wax base stats increased from 8/8 >>> 16/16. (Smaller versions updated to match).
- Updated Hallowed Drippings: “Apply Burnout 5 to friendly Burnout units.” >>> “Apply Burnout 5 and +5 ATK to friendly Burnout units.” Cost increased from 0 >>> 1.
Other MT1 Specific Changes
- Fixed slow animation timing when cards with Offering are discarded.
- Fixed buffs from Melting Spout, Grrrg’s Goad, and Winged Technology being incorrectly duplicated by Fecundity.
- Fixed Vine Grasp not targeting Titan of Dominion.
- Fixed “ClassSpikes” event allowing Shroud Spike to show up when not playing Umbra. Now it should only appear when playing as Umbra, as in MT1.
- Fixed bug where stats granted through Sacrificial Resurrection or Prism Retrieval would not carry over to a reformed unit.
- Sped up delay after playing a unit card, so you can play morsels more rapidly.
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Shiny Shoe (Steam)
Monster Train 2 – Ver. 1.1.2
- Release date: June 18th/18th 2025
- Patch notes:
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a softlock when the ‘Twisting Mycelium’ artifact is present under rare circumstances.
- Fixed a softlock caused by combinations of Reanimate, Burnout, and Harvest under certain conditions.
- Fixed a Cluster Colonel spawned Funguy making the front friendly character unplayable under rare conditions.
- Fixed Mooncaller unit’s Mooncycle trigger bonus not applying to the ‘Fae’s Nook’ artifact.
- Fixed Fhyra’s Greed Pyre Heart not granting money when taking pyre damage from Celestial Alcove events.
- Fixed bug where Trample would not work in a room with Imprisoned Zephyr.
- Fixed bug where Titan damage and status popups would not appear in the correct location.
- Fixed the option to abandon a Relentless battle going on for many rounds not actually abandoning the battle.
- Fixed visual issues with TFB background.
- Fixed a sorting issue with Chosen VFX.
- Fixed Astreal the Lost having incorrect Titan affinity VFX.
- Fixed Mooncaller feet, reanimate visuals, and relentless debris not being clipped by the floor properly.
- Fixed Savage Spirit upgrade not granting the correct amount of attack.
- Fixed bug where restarting a battle in the middle of playing Soldier of Fortune or similar unit-drawing cards could leave a card stuck on-screen.
- Fixed Trample damage not triggering Avarice.
- Fixed bug where Sacrificial Chamber would not trigger for bosses.
- Fixed ‘Penitent’s Bloodsuit’ on a Monster not triggering ‘Taskmaster’s Lash’ when the character shifts.
- Fixed bug where Canio, Yorrick, Kwilling Catcher, and Avarice were not impacted by the Tithe or Moneybag mutators.
- Fixed Corruption status effect being unaffected by Propagate effects.
- Fixed ‘Spotted Spore’ artifact only granting one bonus per spell cast instead of one bonus per Troop stack added.
- Fixed the ‘Split Anvil’ artifact incorrectly leaving a cost bonus on spell copies sent directly to the discard pile (ex: Spreading Spores, Contagious).
- Fixed ‘Mushy Room’ card text not showing bonus effects of the Duality Mutator.
- Fixed bug where Silence from enchantments would not properly suppress Spawn triggers.
- Fixed Inhale not spawning a Funguy when it slays a Monster unit in a room at max character limit.
- Fixed missing Ephemeral tooltip for Ekka’s Lunar Echo ability.
- Fixed various typos in English.
Balance Changes
- Spellchain and Holystone can now be upgraded together on the same card.
- Funguy that Ascend/Descend will no longer trigger Rally when they merge with another Funguy.
- Tidal Turning base healing reduced from 20 >>> 10.
- Baron Grael Living Armory I HP increased from 5 >>> 10.
- Ekka Silver Empress I & II stats increased from 12/8, 20/12 >>> 15/10, 20/15.
- Talos Battle Cleric I & II stats increased from 8/20, 15/30 >>> 15/20, 20/30.
- Moonlit Glaive cost increased from 1 >>> 2.
- Astrologer attack on Mooncycle increased from 4 >>> 5.
- Zone of Silence cost increased from 2 >>> 3.
- Pyreball damage increased from 15 >>> 20.
- Celestial Radiance Talos stats increased from 10/16, 15/25, 30/50 >>> 15/20, 25/35, 40/60.
- Wealthy Whelp ability Moneymaker gold gain reduced from 7 >>> 5, cooldown reduced from 3 >>> 2.
- Snotty Whelp ability Gellysneeze pyregel increased from 10 >>> 12.
- Arduhn Mystic Hammer II & III stats increased from 20/40, 40/80 >>> 25/45, 50/90.
- Morel Mistress attack increased from 5 >>> 15.
- Miser stats updated from 3/9 >>> 8/8.
- Lunar Priestess stats increased from 5/5 >>> 8/8.
- Silent Sentinel attack increased from 0 >>> 10.
- Pincushion stats increased from 6/6 >>> 12/12.
UI Changes
- Added a button to the Mix selection screen to hide the draft options so players can see the state of the battle before making their choice.
- Celestial Alcove events with 2 rewards now display tooltips and are stacked instead of side by side.
- Moved Calcified Ember notification to the bottom of the cards in the draft screen and added a glow around it to draw more attention to it.
- In the Battle Intro screen, fixed the enemy on the pedestal sometimes only having a small hover area for tooltips in battle intro screen.
- The Dragon’s Hoard “Loot” button sheen is now disabled when you have zero Dragon’s Hoard.
- Updated Battle Name, Waves Remaining and Community Challenges Name layout to fix bug with some overlapping elements.
- Upgrade names should no longer overlap custom challenge names in the Light Forge screen.
- In the Run Opening screen, adjust the OK button to render below any tooltips from cards that might overlap it.
- Fixed some tooltips for Covenant buffs not showing up in battle preview.
- Updated layout of Trials so that the Trial description text and Trials toggle button do not overlap in some languages.
- New unlocks are now immediately notified after leaving story dialogues.
- Fixed preventing clan and pyre heart selection dialogs from closing when clicking inside them, but not on the clan or pyre heart items.
- Fixed minor positioning issue with the champion upgrade screen card frames.
- Boss starter status effect and matching Covenant status effect stack counts are now combined when showing tooltips outside of combat.
- Merchant voice over now occurs half as often.
- Made minor layout adjustment to dimensional challenges layout to center content a little better.
Localization Changes
- Fixed numerous bugs in the Korean translation.
- Fixed numerous bugs in the Russian translation.
- Fixed a few issues in the Simplified Chinese translation.
- Fixed wrong Japanese kanji used in Dimensional Challenge lock message.
Bug Fixes – Spoilers
Balance Changes – Spoilers
- Rektor Flicker Burn Bright II & III stats increased from 50/50, 90/90, 180/180 >>> 50/50, 100/100, 200/200.
- Solgard Direchannel III damage increased from 4/8/12 >>> 4/8/16.
- Wyldenten Strangler hp increased from 30/50/70 >>> 40/65/90.
- Wyldenten Thornlord atk increased from 5/5/5 >>> 5/10/20.
- Reaper Hornbreaker atk increased from 25/50/100 >>> 30/60/120.
- Vent damage increased from 2X >>> 3 X.
- Demon Fiend now has Trample.
- Imp-O-Late damage increased from 15x Imps in deck >>> 20x Imps in deck.
- Molting Imp damage increased from 5 >>> 8.
- Steelworker armor increased from 5 >>> 6.
- Fortify armor increased from 5 >>> 8.
- March of Shields armor increased from 10 >>> 12.
- Horned Warrior HP increased from 5 >>> 8.
- Branded Warrior HP increased from 5 >>> 8.
- Crucible Collector hp increased from 20 >>> 30.
- Crucible Warden atk increased from 20 >>> 30.
- Antumbra Assault damage increased from 3 >>> 5.
- Rubble Morsel granted stats increased from 2/2 >>> 3/3.
- Morsel Miner granted stats increased from 8/8 >>> 9/9.
- Morsel Jeweler hp and granted hp increased from 5 >>> 6.
- Morsel Excavator atk and granted atk increased from 5 >>> 6.
- Magma Morsel atk and granted atk increased from 8 >>> 9.
- Antumbra Morsel hp and granted hp increased from 8 >>> 9.
- Explosive Sentient HP increased from 25/50/100 >>> 30/60/120 Explosive Sentient III damage on Rejuvenate increased from 90 >>> 120.
- Handheld Totem Tethys atk increased from 5/10/20 >>> 10/20/30.
- Animus of Speed atk increased from 25 >>> 35.
- ‘Offering Token’ (Draw 1, Discard 1) updated so that any Ephemeral Offering Token copy in hand is ineligible for the discard requirement, not just ones made via Spellchain upgrades.
- Teeth of Gold artifact damage increased from 3 >>> 5.
UI Changes – Spoilers
- Changed Deep Offering to auto-select the first card in the player’s hand after the redraw on controller/keyboard.
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Shiny Shoe (Steam)
How to download updates for Monster Train 2 on Nintendo Switch?
To download the updates for Monster Train 2, you have three options:
- let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off
If not…
- try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;
OR
- select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.
To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.
