Pumpkin Patch for Horn of the Abyss download

Author: Liso1 September 15, 2026 1 Comment

Pumpkin Patch is a mod for Horn of the Abyss, intended to bring balance and QoL changes to the game. The changes are meant to be beautiful, balanced, bold, brilliant, benign and to sometimes benefit from a touch of buffoonery. One of the key drives for the design of the mod was increasing the variety of gampelay elements present when playing optimally. Naturally, as a result, game balance was one of the primary aims.

To install the mod, simply open the installer. The mod should be able to tell whether you are using a Polish version or not, and update accordingly. It is recommended to manually uninstall the previous version, if you want the mod to make an automatic backup – otherwise, the automatic backup may be faulty.

Main features include:

• HexSwapper
• QoL features
• Secondary skill rebalance
• Hero specialty rebalance
• New hero specialties – f.e. Melodia is now a Luck specialist.
• 4 new heroes – Kastore (Warlock, Tactics specialty), Athe (Heretic, Diplomacy specialty), Sleen (Wizard, Precision specialty) and Gwenneth (Cleric, Scholar specialty)
• New combination artifact – Armageddon’s Blade (comprised of Shield of the Damned, Sword of Hellfire, Breastplate of Brimstone and the Hellstorm Helmet)
  
• New hero portraits for Archibald and King Nicolas Gryphonheart
• School of Magic rebalance

Pumpkin Patch v1.6.3 changelog:

• [-] Fixed Cure specialty being 25%, and not 50%, as intended.
• [-] Reduced Ice Bolt’s water magic scaling to 15/15/30/60.
• [-] Increased Meteor Shower damage to SPx30, and cost to 20/16
• [-] Increased Inferno damage to SPx20 + 25/25/50/100, and cost to 20/16.
• [-] Changed the portrait of Kobold Foremen to face the other way, making it clear they are the upgrade.
• [-] Fixed a minor issue causing Faerie Dragons to require pressing “G” to cast spells.
• [-] Fixed Duel settings not applying properly.
• [-] Reduced the odds of unit spellcasters casting to 25%.
• [-] Fixed rampart not being able to build Fort in towns without one.
• [-] Changed the cost of Sieidi of the runes to 4 crystal, 4 gems, 2000 gold. And Altar of the runes, 4 crystals, 4 gems, 2000 gold.
• [-] Cover of Darkness: Sulphur cost reduced to 2.
• [-] Reverted changes to the price of Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons (effectively making them cheaper, since resource silo is cheaper now).
• [-] Reverted cost changes to the Hay Bins.
• [-] Reverted the changes to the cost of Quicksand.
• [-] Increased the static specialty bonus of level 1, 2 and 3 spell (with the exception of Hypnotize, Forgetfulness and Animate Dead) to a static 50% bonus.
• [-] Faerie Dragons: number of casts increased to 10.
• [-] [DUEL]: Faerie Dragons: number of casts increased to 20.
• [-] Altar of Water now additionally requires the Altar of Air.
• [-] Altar of Earth no longer requires Altar of Water.
• [-] Altar of Thought now requires Altars of air, water, fire and earth.
• [-] Reduced Zealot AI to 700. Number of casts is still 3.
• [-] Reduced number of casts of Magic Mirror War Unicorns have to 1.
• [-] Reduced the odds of zealots and unicorns spellcasting to 20% (It’s more of a weight-related probability, likely AI will still be casting a lot if it has nothing else to do).
• [-] [DUEL]: Eikthurn now starts with 3 stacks of 5 Rams each.
• [-] Slightly increased the value and reduced frequency of Ivory Towers, based on data provided by Ingus.
• [-] Fight value of steel elves increased to 433. Maybe some day AI will attack it.