I actually couldn’t tell you how many years I’ve played this game for, because it’s been so many, but I’ve definitely put somewhere in the 5000 hour range into the game during that period of time. This is (surprisingly) the first time I’ve ever encountered something that felt extremely unbalanced. This is bolstered by the fact that AFAIK trinkets were intended to be a middle-of-the-road type item that acts as neither a direct buff nor nerf but rather opens up opportunity for different build styles. I’m also going to point out what I believe to be an actual bug, but I’m unsure because it could just be some wonky RNG.

This isn’t necessarily a terrible game breaking thing because it requires having a +3 petrified seed and +10 sandals of nature to be efficient. It also requires playing huntress to obtaining rejuvenating steps from a meta scroll. I know that infinitely farming seeds is viable with this combo and a fair amount of luck, but the rate with which you’re able to get rune stones is really absurd. Once you have the items you just need one patch of grass, even if it’s only a handful of tiles. You step on them with rejuv steps and then aggro enemies to stomp the grass back down to rejuv again. The screenshot above isn’t a crazy amount but it took less than 5 minutes to get them (I don’t plan on actually abusing it for this run).

This definitely makes petrified seed a monster ours buff for huntress w sandals. It’s definitely not game breaking because it’s still going to be a very rare combo to see generally, but it feels unbalanced and I wanted to point it out. The 25% drop rate is what makes this viable I think; You get way too many dewdrops because of the rate increase which makes hunger a non-issue. Also the fact that the trinket can be dropped to farm seeds instead makes the items “downside” not actually feel like any downside at all.

Now to what I think may be a bug; floors are generating with an absolutely crazy amount of grass. I thought it was just lucky at first, but the last 5 floors since I got the trinket have seemed like straight grassy floors. I also encountered a dark (forget the actual term but I mean the level you need a torch for) floor and did not encounter a torch, which I thought was a given on those floors.

Sorry if this isn’t the place to post something like this. I couldn’t think of any other way to report this; and I also just made this Lemmy account so I’m also unfamiliar with the platform. Hopefully this can be of some help though.