The Land Beneath Us (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.8.5.3)

26 June 2025 Lite_Agent FairPlay Studios, Plug In Digital, The Land Beneath Us

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The Land Beneath Us – Ver. 1.8.5.3

Release date: June 26th/27th 2025
Patch notes:.

New Contents:

Blessing & Curse pack

The soul shard shop unlocks after completing the main story. A new pack, “Blessing & Curse” has now been released! It includes:

Weapons

Blessing Katana

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Hit an enemy 1 tile away, then move to the tile behind them. When hitting the enemy, 10% chance to receive a random buff for 3 turns. Max Level: Increases to 20% chance.

Blessing Sniper

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Fire a shot 5 tiles away. Damage depends on the hit range. 10% chance to gain a random buff for 3 turns when hitting an enemy. Max level: Fires a shot 7 tiles away instead.

Curse Sniper

Cost: 20,000 soul shards

Description: Fire a shot 7 tiles away. Damage depends on the hit range and status effect turns. 20% chance to gain a random buff for 2 turns when hitting an enemy. Curse: 20% chance to gain a random debuff for 2 turns when hitting an enemy.

Relics

Red Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +5% critical chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical chance)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +10% critical chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical chance)(Max: x%)

Yellow Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +2.5% dodge chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% dodge chance)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +5% dodge chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% dodge chance)(Max: x%)

Orange Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Epic

Description: You have a +2.5% critical DMG chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical DMG)(Max: x%)

Enhanced description: You have a +5% critical DMG chance per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x% critical DMG)(Max: x%)

Black Counting Box

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Rarity: Legendary

Description: Increase other Counting Box limit effects by +10%.You have +1 base DMG per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x base DMG)

Enhanced description: Increase other Counting Box limit effects by +20%.You have +1 base DMG per each type of status effect you have. (Total status effects: x types)(Current: +x base DMG)

Chips

Random Buff

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Random Buff. Applies 2 random buffs to self for 2 turns.

Fast Forward

Cost: 20,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Fast Forward. Resets all chips and teleport cooldown immediately.

Consume Wave

Cost: 30,000 soul shards

Lv.1 Description: Cast Consume Wave. Consumes all your buffs and debuffs to randomly deal 11 – 15 DMG per stack to all enemies.

Gloria

Cost: 30,000 soul shards
Lv.1 Description: Cast Gloria to self for 3 turns. Your attacks have a 25% chance to receive 3 Souls or Soul Shards.

A Fierce Warrior King Quest

Unlock: Encounter Nuada
Objective: Kill Nuada
Reward: Unlock “Crimson Burning Blade”

Crimson Burning Blade

Description: Hit an enemy 1 tile away. Apply 1 Burn per 3 Lord souls and gain a 20% chance to consume the enemy’s Burn stack to deal 5 DMG per stack. (Current: apply x Burn stacks)

Added a new status effect: Receive Souls Per Hit Chance Description: Your attacks have a x% chance to receive 3 Souls or Soul Shards.

Added 2 new Sven animations: Shooting by “Gun” and “Sniper”

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue where Zero Sven might not spawn.

Fixed an issue where Nuada’s image in the Boss Archive was incorrect.

Fixed an issue where Chip Mode automatically switched from Manual to Auto when the chip was activated.

Fixed an issue where the Hidden Dagger relic had no effect on bosses.

Fixed an issue where the Nuada Ring relic didn’t heal for 5% of total damage.

Fixed an issue where the Adar Llwch Feather relic incorrectly applied the Bonus Damage status effect on a critical hit.

Fixed an issue where The Basher incorrectly increased the Bonus Damage status effect on every hit during a single turn.

Fixed an issue where removing the Provoking Mask did not reset the enemy’s damage reduction.

Fixed an issue where the Thunder chip applied an incorrect amount of stun.

Fixed an issue where the Explosion chip displayed an incorrect image.

Fixed an issue where the Additional Flat Damage was calculated multiple times in a single turn.

Fixed an issue where a permanent status effect could be removed when using the Consume Wave chip.

Fixed an issue where the Permanent Immunity status effect displayed two icons when the player enhanced the Band of Immunity relic.

Fixed an issue where some status effect icons displayed incorrect values.

Fixed an issue where a status effect icon was not disabled after being used.

Fixed an issue where challenge conditions were not reset when entering another mode.

Balancing & Gameplay Changes:

Adjusted the maximum stack limit of the Shield Absorb status effect to 10.

Increased base damage of the sword-type weapons by +10%

Increased the impact damage by +50%

Increased the Hidden Boss’s HP and damage.

HP: 900 → 1470

Damage: 11 → 17

Increased the Hidden Boss chance in the Purple Moon mode

Lv. 1: 5% → 10%

Lv. 2: 5% → 20%

Lv. 3: 5% → 40%

Lv. 4: 10% → 60%

Lv. 5: 20% → 80%

Lv. 6: 30% → 100%

Increased the Burn status effect duration

Relic

Pyro Reactor (Enhanced): 2 → 3 turns

Weapons

Agony Great Sword: 3 → 5 turns

Agony Raid Rapid: 3 → 5 turns

Agony Spear: 3 → 5 turns

The Rage of Brigit: 2 → 3 turns

Lv. 6: 30% → 100%

Chips

Fireball: 2 → 3 turns

Fire trap: 2 → 3 turns

Pyromaniac (per levels): 1/1/2/2/3/3/4/4/5/6 → 2/2/3/3/5/5/6/6/7/9 turns

Trap

Lava tile effect: 2 → 3 turns

Localization Updates:

Fixed an issue where some words are typos in the French language.

Updated more information for the relics’ descriptions.

Relics

Auto Loot System (Normal): On clearing a room, destroy all breakables in the room. +30% Bonus Gold and Bonus Souls.

Auto Loot System (Enhanced): On starting a room, destroy all breakables in the room. +50% Bonus Gold and Bonus Souls.

Guard Up (Enhanced): On starting a room, apply 1 Shield Absorb to yourself.

Status effects

Burn Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Burns.

Poison Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Poisons.

Stun Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Stun.

Blind Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Blind.

Disarm Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 1 Disarm.

Mark Inflict Enhance: Your attacks have a x% chance to apply 3 Marks.

Shield Absorb: Block DMG 1 time per stack. DMG taken will heal you instead. (Max: 10 stacks)

Known Issues:

Sven can move onto the same tile as the lava totem in the Caorthannach room.

The cursed effect of the Cursed Auf’s Revolver doesn’t cancel when the weapon reaches its maximum level.

The mini-boss and boss have incorrect HP values.

The counter equipment doesn’t work against moving enemies.

The Piggy Bank relic icon is missing its current value display.

The Provoking Mask doesn’t update enemy damage data in Inspector Mode.

The status effect of an enhanced relic is not displayed in the Archive panel.

Additional notes: none
Source: Fairplay Studios (Steam)

How to download updates for The Land Beneath Us on Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for The Land Beneath Us, 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;

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.