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Removed Buildings

 

Version History

Version

Description

7.31

• Moved the offlane Towers of both Radiant and Dire 320 units further away from their bases.
• Fountain now grant invulnerability to heroes upon respawning if there are enemy heroes within their base as they respawn. [?]
• Added the new Reinforced ability for all buildings.

7.30

• Lycan Lane Wolf can now Cripple towers. [?]

7.29

• Increased Backdoor Protection incoming damage reduction from 40% to 50%.
• Outposts
  • Reduced vision range from 700 to 500.
  • • Changed experience gain formula from 20XP/min - 50XP to 2XP/min.
    • Reduced experience gain interval from 600 to 60.
    • Compared to the previous version at 10/20/30/40 minutes, total Experience_XP given per player changed from 150/500/1050/1800_XP to 110/420/930/1640_XP.
    • Reduced True Sight radius from 700 to 500.

7.27

• Towers
  • Reduced base attack time from 1 to 0.9.
  • Increased base attack speed from 100 to 110.
  • Reduced last hit bounty from 135‒225 on each tier to 75‒165/95‒185/115‒205/135‒225 . [?]
  • Reduced attack damage from 100‒120/195‒205/195‒205/195‒205 to 88‒92/170‒174/170‒174/170‒174.
• Fountain Damage now increases its damage by 3 for each hit.
• Outposts
  • Can no longer be captured by the enemy until an opposing Tower (Tier 2) is destroyed.
  • Channeling an Outpost to capture it now provides vision around the channeling hero to the enemy team.
  • Alt now displays the Outposts' vision range.

7.26b

• Changed all buildings' team Gold bounties from reliable to unreliable.
• Towers
  • Increased health from 1800/2000/2000/2100 to 1800/2500/2500/2600. [?]
  • Increased attack damage from 100‒120/170-180/170-180/170-180 to 100‒120/195‒205/195‒205/195‒205. [?]
  • Tower Protection now also grant 1/3/3/3 bonus health regeneration while ability is active.

7.26

• Towers
  • Reduced last hit bounty from 150‒250 to 135‒225.
  • Reduced team bounty from 100/120/140/160 to 90/110/125/145 .
• Reduced Effigy (Filler Buildings) last hit gold bounty from 75 to 68 .
• Barracks
  • Reduced last hit bounty from 100‒150 to 90‒135.
  • Reduced Melee Barracks team bounty from 175 to 155 .
  • Reduced Ranged Barracks team bounty from 100 to 90 .

7.25

• Increased Fountain attack damage from 270‒280 to 290‒310.

7.24

• Removed Shrines.
  • All previous Shrines are now replaced with Effigy (Filler Buildings).
• Outposts
  • Moved the side lanes' meeting point to the primary jungles on Radiant and Dire side.
  • Now start as owned by the respective teams, instead of starting out neutral.
  • Can now be captured right away, rather than only after the 10th minute mark.
  • Changed vision type from flying to ground.
  • Reduced vision range from 1400 to 700.
  • Increased Watch Tower True Sight radius from 500 to 700.

7.23e

• Shrines
  • Removed Shrine in the Radiant safelane forest.
  • Removed Shrine in the Dire offlane forest.
  • Sanctuary
    • Increased initial cooldown from 390 to 510.
    • Reduced following cooldown from 300 to 240.
• • Changed experience gain formula from 15XP/min to 20XP/min - 50XP.
  • Increased experience gain interval from 300 to 600.
  • The experience gain now increases in 10-minute intervals, instead of being smoothed down to 1 experience.
  • Compared to the previous version at 10/20/30/40 minutes, total experience given per player changed from 225/750/1575/2700_XP to 150/500/1050/1800_XP.

7.23d

• Reduced experience gain per minute from 18_XP to 15_XP.

7.23c

• Reduced Glyph of Fortification creep duration from 7 to 4.
• Reduced experience gain per minute from 25_XP to 18_XP.

7.23

• Towers
  • Increased night vision from 800 to 1100.
  • Tower (Tier 2)
    • Increased health from 1900 to 2000.
    • Increased base armor from 15 to 16.
    • Increased attack damage from 142‒162 to 170‒180.
  • Denied towers now grant 50% of the team bounty to the enemy team.
• Fountain
  • Increased attack damage from 220‒240 to 270‒280.
  • Reduced Fountain Damage accuracy from 25% to 20%.
• Glyph of Fortification
  • Increased multishot targets from 2 to 4.
  • Increased duration from 6 to 7.
• Added Outposts.
  • There are two outposts located on the map, one on each side lane, approximately where the side lanes of the Radiant and Dire meet. [?]
  • Outposts start out as neutral buildings. Right Click an Outpost begins channeling. When the channel successful, the team gains control over the outpost. The channeling time gets shorter the more allies channeling it.
  • Once captured, the capturing team gains Experience_XP initially upon capturing it, and then in 5-minute intervals on the game clock.
  • The experience is based on the game time, starting at 0 and increasing by 1_XP every 2.4 seconds or 25_XP/min.
  • Captured outposts provide 1400 radius flying vision and 500 radius True Sight around them.
  • Captured outposts can be teleported to. Town Portal Scroll take 3 seconds longer to channel, plus the extra channel time for previous recent teleports to the building.
  • Outposts cannot be captured before the 10th minute mark. It takes 6/3/2/1.5/1.2 seconds for 1/2/3/4/5 heroes to capture it. Only heroes and clones may capture it.
  • Outposts are indestructible. Attacking them causes no damage.

7.22

• Increased Tower (Tier 3) and Tower (Tier 4) attack damage from 142-162 to 170-180.
• Increased Tower Protection armor bonus from 2/4/4/4 to 3/5/5/5.
• Glyph of Fortification now causes Towers (Tier 2/3/4) to attack 2 additional targets while active with the following priorities:
  • Closest enemy unit attacking the tower itself.
  • Closest enemy unit attacking an ally of the tower.
  • Closest enemy unit.

7.21

• Increased Tower (Tier 2) base armor from 14 to 15.
• Increased Tower (Tier 3) base armor from 14 to 16.
• Increased Tower Protection armor bonus from 2/3/3/3 to 2/4/4/4. [?]
• Increased Melee Barracks armor from 13 to 15.

7.20

• Removed Tower Armor Bonus.
• Towers
  • Rescaled base armor from 17/19/19/19 to 12/14/14/21.
  • Increased health from 1600 on each tier to 1800/1900/2000/2100.
• Ancient
  • Reduced base armor from 18 to 13.
  • Increased health from 4250 to 4500.
• Fountain Damage
  • Now have 25% accuracy on its attacks. [?]
  • Fountain damage now cancel consumables, and disables items (i.e. Blink Dagger, Heart of Tarrasque) and other abilities that are disabled by player-based damage.
• Shrines
  • Reduced armor from 24 to 17.
  • Sanctuary
    • Now additionally heals 2% of max health and mana per second.
    • Increased base health regeneration bonus from 75 to 90.
    • Increased base mana regeneration bonus from 30 to 50.
• Reduced Effigy (Filler Buildings) armor from 14 to 10.
• Barracks
  • Added new sound effects that plays when all of a team's barracks are destroyed.
  • Melee Barracks
    • Reduced armor from 18 to 13.
    • Increased health from 2000 to 2200.
  • Ranged Barracks
    • Reduced armor from 12 to 9.
    • Increased health from 1200 to 1300.

7.19b

• Glyph of Fortification is now on cooldown until the game timer hits 3:00.
  • Has a 5 minutes cooldown, the first 2 minutes of which are during the pre-horn phase.

7.16

• Increased Melee Barracks health from 1800 to 2000.

7.15

• Denied towers no longer grant 50% of the team bounty to the enemy team.
• Increased Ancient health regeneration from 8 to 12.
• Increased Melee Barracks team bounty from 225 to 175 .

7.13

• Reduced towers team bounty from 120/200/200/200 to 100/120/140/160 .
• Increased Glyph of Fortification duration from 5 to 6.
• Shrines
  • Increased health from 1500 to 1750.
  • Shrines now have 5 health regeneration.
• Increased Effigy (Filler Buildings) last hit gold bounty from 125 to 75 .
• Increased Melee Barracks health from 1500 to 1800.
• Reduced Ranged Barracks team bounty from 150 to 100 .

7.08

• Increased Tower Protection Tower (Tier 1) armor bonus from 1 to 2.
• Added a visual and sound effect for when buildings get damaged while under Backdoor Protection.

7.07b

• Backdoor Protection
  • Increased incoming damage reduction from 25% to 40%.
  • Increased incoming damage reduction against illusions from 50% to 75%.

7.07

• Towers
  • Increased base armor from 14/16/16/24 to 17/19/19/29.
  • Increased Tower (Tier 1) health from 1400 to 1600.
  • Tower (Tier 4) no longer has 3 health regeneration.
• Ancient
  • Increased armor from 15 to 18.
  • Increased health regeneration from 3 to 8.
• Fountain
  • Increased attack damage from 190-199 to 220-240.
  • Rejuvenation Aura
    • Increased mana regeneration from 14 + 4% of max mana to 6% of max mana.
    • Increased health regeneration from 4% of max health to 5% of max health.
• Glyph of Fortification now affects allied lane creeps as well.
• Shrines
  • Increased armor from 20 to 24.
  • Removed and replaced the 3 Shrines inside the bases with Effigy buildings.
  • Moved mid Shrines of both factions closer to the primary jungle area.
  • Swapped offlane Shrines and Bounty Rune.
  • Sanctuary
    • No longer increases health regeneration bonus per minute by 2.
    • No longer increases mana regeneration bonus per minute by 0.75.
    • Reduced base health regeneration bonus from 90 to 75.
    • Reduced base mana regeneration bonus from 40 to 30.
• Effigy (Filler Buildings)
  • Added 3 filler buildings to replaced removed Shrines.
  • Increased armor from 12 to 14.
• Increased Melee Barracks armor from 15 to 18.
• Increased Ranged Barracks armor from 10 to 12.

7.06

• Reduced towers team bounty from 120/200/240/280 to 120/200/200/200 . [?]
• Increased Backdoor Protection permanent incoming damage reduction against illusions from 50% to 60%.
• Increased Tower Armor Bonus radius from 1400 to 1600.
• Shrines
  • Removed the Shrines behind the bottom and top Barracks for both factions.
    • There are a total of 5 shrines now, with 3 inside the base.
  • Reduced team bounty from 150 to 125 .
  • Sanctuary
    • The ability now starts on cooldown and become available at 5 minutes after the first creep wave spawns. [?]
    • Reduced bonus mana regeneration per minute from 1 to 0.75.
• Reduced Melee Barracks team bounty from 275 to 225 .
• Reduced Ranged Barracks team bounty from 225 to 150 .

7.05

• Reduced towers base armor from 16/18/18/26 to 14/16/16/24.
• Tower Armor Bonus
  • Increased armor bonus per nearby enemy hero from 2 to 3.
  • Increased radius from 1200 to 1400.
• Reduced Sanctuary base health regeneration bonus from 100 to 90.

7.03

• Towers
  • Reduced tower armor from 20/22/22/30 to 16/18/18/26.
  • Tower (Tier 1)
    • Reduced team bounty from 160 to 120 .
    • Increased health from 1300 to 1400.
  • Added new Tower Armor Bonus ability.

Tower Armor Bonus

The tower's armor increases the more enemy heroes are nearby.

Radius: 1200

Armor bonus per enemy hero: 2

• Reduced Sanctuary base health regeneration bonus from 120 to 100.

7.02

• Towers no longer attack nearby neutral creeps.
• Shrines are now vulnerable after destroying a Tower (Tier 3) (same as the Shrines inside the base), rather than after all Tower (Tier 2) is destroyed.

7.00

• Tower (Tier 4) now have 3 health regeneration.
• Increased Backdoor Protection permanent incoming damage reduction against illusions from 30% to 50%.
• Glyph of Fortification
  • Fixed not affecting Effigies.
  • Added a 1 second delay to the cooldown reset that happens after losing a Tower (Tier 1).
• Added Shrines.
  • Shrines have 1500 health and 20 armor, these buildings do not grant vision.
  • Shrines are near both faction's Secret Shops and new ancient creeps locations.
  • Shrines can be teleported to with Town Portal Scroll or Boots of Travel.
  • Shrines become vulnerable whenever all tier 2 towers fall for the respective team.
  • Each team have 5 Shrines in their base.
  • Has a 150 team bounty when destroyed.
  • Has the Sanctuary ability.
    • Right Click the Shrine activates the ability once the hero is in melee range.
    • The ability become available to use outside the base once lane creeps spawn after the pre-horn.

New Sanctuary

Generates an aura that provides increased health and mana regeneration to nearby allies when activated.

Aura radius: 500

Base health regeneration bonus: 120

Health regeneration bonus per minute: 2

Base mana regeneration bonus: 40

Mana regeneration bonus per minute: 1

Aura linger duration: 0.5

Duration: 5

Cooldown: 240

• Effigy (Filler Buildings)
  • Increased health from 500 to 1000.
  • Increased armor from 10 to 12.
  • Increased last hit bounty from 111 to 125 .

6.88e

• Increased Backdoor Protection permanent incoming damage reduction against illusions from 25% to 30%.

6.87

• Reduced True Sight radius from 900 to 700.
• Towers
  • Tower (Tier 2)
    • Increased attack damage from 120‒140 to 122‒182.
    • Adjusted the position of the bottom Radiant Tower (Tier 2) and nearby trees.
  • Tower (Tier 3) and Barracks are moved slightly back away from the ramp.
  • Adjusted and spaced out Radiant Tower (Tier 4) slightly.
  • Added new Tower Protection ability.

New Tower Protection

Increases armor of nearby allied heroes.

Radius: 900

Armor bonus: 1/3/3/3

Notes: Only affects heroes, illusions and creep-heroes. Multiple instances do not stack.

6.86

• Towers no longer have a 25_XP bounty.
• Rejuvenation Aura now shows a buff icon during its duration.

6.84

• Reduced Tower (Tier 2) and Tower (Tier 3) base armor from 25 to 22.
• Increased Melee Barracks team bounty from 175 to 275 .
• Increased Ranged Barracks team bounty from 100 to 225 .

6.83b

• Increased Melee Barracks team bounty from 125 to 175 .
• Increased Ranged Barracks team bounty from 75 to 100 .

6.83

• Backdoor Protection now always grants 25% incoming damage reduction against illusions, independent from the reduction of the part that gets disabled by nearby creeps.
• Barracks
  • Reduced team bounty from 352‒370 to 100‒150.
  • Melee Barracks now provides 125 team bounty.
  • Ranged Barracks now provides 75 team bounty.

6.82

• Towers
  • Reduced tower team bounty from 264/312/358/405 to 160/200/240/280 .
  • Now denying towers provide 50% of tower bounty to the opposing team.
  • Increased Tower (Tier 2) armor from 20 to 25.
• Fountain
  • Fountain area is now at a higher elevation level.
  • Increased vision from 1400 to 1800.
  • Increased Fountain Damage attack range from 1100 to 1200.
  • Increased True Sight radius from 900 to 1200.
• Glyph of Fortification cooldown is now reset whenever a tier 1 tower ist lost.

6.79

• Increased Towers last hit bounty from 100‒200 to 150‒250.
• Increased from Melee Barracks health regeneration from 2.5 to 5.
• Ranged Barracks
  • Reduced health regeneration from 2.5 to 0.
  • Reduced health from 1500 to 1200.
  • Increased armor from 5 to 10.

6.78

• Backdoor Protection
  • Now also grants 25% incoming damage reduction against all other units when not disabled.
  • Increased incoming damage reduction against illusions from 25% to 50%.
• Towers
  • Increased base armor from 18/18/25/25 to 20/20/25/25. [?]
  • No longer have separate bounty values when lane creeps or allies get the last hit.
  • Now grants the same reliable gold bounty to all players as if a lane creep killed it.
  • Now grants 100‒200 last hit bounty. Does not affect team bounty in any way.

6.75

• Increased Glyph of Fortification duration from 4 to 5.

6.72

• Glyph of Fortification now also grants buildings 100% magic resistance. [?]

6.69

• Reduced Glyph of Fortification cooldown from 360 to 300.

6.68

• Increased Backdoor Protection healing rate from 55 to 90 per second.

6.66

• ↓↓ Double-tapping Town Portal Scroll and Boots of Travel now automatically targets the team's Fountain.

6.64

• Increased Backdoor Protection healing rate from 40 to 55 per second.

6.63

• Glyph of Fortification cooldown is now reset on initial creep spawn. [?]

6.61

• Fixed various minor inconsistencies between Radiant and Dire units/buildings.
  • Increased Dire Fountain projectile speed from 1400 to 1500. [?]
• Bottle now also refills at the Fountain when having 2 or 1 charge left, instead of only refilling when fully empty.

6.60

• Added new Backdoor Protection ability.
  • Granted to all buildings within the base, and to the Tower (Tier 2).
  • Causes buildings to heal back any health lost at a rate of 40 health per second. [?]
  • Also grants the buildings 25% incoming damage reduction against illusions.
  • The healing and incoming damage reduction get disabled if there is a lane creep near the building.
  • The healing and damage reduction are re-enabled once 15 seconds elapse without an enemy lane creeps nearby.
• Ranged Barracks no longer has 2.5 health regeneration.
• Towers
  • Changed the Tower (Tier 1) damage type from Normal to Siege. Adjusted the damage table to keep the damage lane creeps take in the laning phase unchanged.
  • No longer regenerate from allied damage while trying to deny towers.

6.57

• Minor improvements to Glyph of Fortification.

6.55

• Increased Rejuvenation Aura radius by a small amount.
• Added new Glyph of Fortification ability. [?]

New Glyph of Fortification

Grant your structures invincibility for 4 seconds.

Duration: 4

Cooldown: 360

• Teleport
  • No longer requires the player to target within a 2000 range of a structure [?]
  • No longer cancels automatically when the targeted structure gets destroyed.
  • No longer grants 99999 armor to the targeted structure for the channeled duration.
  • No longer disables the targeted structure for the channeled duration.
  • Multiple players can now teleport at the same time towards the same structure, instead of only one at a time.
  • Can now teleport to any point within a 525 radius of a structure. [?]

6.52e

• Increased Rejuvenation Aura Bottle refill radius.

6.52b

• Melee Barracks [?]
  • Reduced armor from 15 to 5.
  • Increased health regeneration from 2.5 to 20.

6.52

• Teleport
  • Fixed not granting the armor bonus when not directly targeting the building.
  • Now notifies allies with a ‼ Ping on the minimap when starting to teleport to a building.

6.51

• Bottle now automatically refills itself within the radius of Rejuvenation Aura of the team's Fountain.

6.50

• Rejuvenation Aura now provides a constant 7 mana regeneration.

6.45

• Courier Shield now gets dispelled when the Flying Courier enters the enemy's fountain area.
• Fixed Teleport being unable to target the Ancient.

6.44

• Added a new Radiant Ancient model.

6.41

• Tower (Tier 1) are invulnerable until first lane creeps wave spawns.

6.38

• Towers no longer has 2 health regeneration.

6.35

• U
  Fountain are no longer invulnerable. [?]

6.28

• Ancient creeps can no longer attack Towers.

6.21

• Increased Rejuvenation Aura radius a little, but smaller than the Fountain Damage attack range.

6.19b

• Removed corpse creation from Dire Ranged Barracks. [?]

6.17

• Fixed Tower (Tier 4) being the same level as the Tower (Tier 2).
  • Tower (Tier 4)
    • Increased armor from 18 to 25.
    • Increased damage from 120‒140 to 122‒182.
    • Increased health regeneration from 0.05 to 2.

6.10

• Increased Barracks' health regeneration from 0 to 2.5.
• Tower (Tier 3)
  • Increased armor from 18 to 25.
  • Increased damage from 100‒120 to 122‒182.
  • Increased health regeneration from 0.05 to 2.
• Teleport now grants the targeted building 99999 armor while channeling.
  • Physical attacks still do 1 damage to Towers, since 100% physical damage resistance cannot be achieved with just armor, and the Dota rounds the damage numbers to full numbers.

6.08

• Removed the invisible towers near the Barracks with a single target attack speed slow to prevent backdoor.

6.07

• Added invisible towers near the Barracks with a single target attack speed slow to prevent backdoor.

6.04

• Ancient
  • Radiant Ancient no longer attacks.
  • Added new True Sight ability.

Adds the ability to see invisible units and wards to any allied vision within the structure's range.

Radius: 1200

Aura linger duration: 0.5

6.01

• Increased Towers base armor from 15 to 18.

5.72

• Ancient
  • Reduced Radiant Ancient damage from 100 to 1.
  • Dire Ancient no longer attacks.

5.65

• Reduced Ancient health from 5000 to 4250.

5.62

• Reduced Tower (Tier 1) base attack damage from 110‒130 to 100‒120.

5.61

• Increased Tower (Tier 1) health regeneration from 0.05 to 0.1.

5.55

• Towers
  • Increased health from 1250/1425/1425/1425 to 1300/1600/1600/1600.
  • Increased health regeneration from 0.05/0.15/0.15/0.15 to 0.05/0.5/0.5/0.5. [?]

5.53

• Changed the Towers' damage type from Magical on each tier to Normal/Siege/Siege/Siege. Towers no longer deal magical damage. [?]
  • Damage dealt against Light-type armor units is now 100%/125%/125%/125%, instead of 125%/100%/100%/100%.
  • Damage dealt against Medium-type armor units is now 150%/50%/50%/50%, instead of 75% on each tier.
  • Damage dealt against Heavy-type armor units is now 100%, instead of 200%.
  • Damage dealt against Fortified-type armor units is now 70%/150%/150%/150%, instead of 35% on each tier.
  • Damage dealt against Hero-type armor units is still 75%. [?]
  • Damage dealt against Unarmored-type armor units is now 100%/130%/130%/130%, instead of 100% on each tier. [?]

5.52

• Towers
  • Increased health from 1150/1150/1300/1300 to 1250/1425/1425/1425.
  • Increased base armor from 30 to 15.
  • Reduced Tower (Tier 3) gold bounty from 354‒849 to 374‒674.
  • Tower (Tier 4)
    • Reduced number of towers from 3 to 2.
    • Reduced gold bounty from 354‒849 to 374‒674

5.40

• Reduced Towers health from 1150/1250/1500/1500 to 1150/1150/1300/1300. [?]

5.40

• Reduced Towers health from 1300/1500/2000/2000 to 1150/1250/1500/1500.

5.10

• • Towers
    • Increased base attack damage from 110‒130 on each tier to 110‒130/120‒140/140‒160/140‒160. [?]
    • Increased base attack time from 1 on each tier to 1/0.9/0.9/0.95.
    • Increased health from 1300 on each tier to 1300/1500/2000/2000. [?]
    • Increased gold bounty from 351‒549 on each tier to 351‒549/374‒674/354‒849/354‒849 . [?]
    • Increased Tower (Tier 4) health regeneration from 0.05 to 0.15.
• Reduced Ancient health from 8000 to 5000.

4.1beta01

• Reworked Tower (Tier 4).
  • Replaced Radiant Ancient Destroyer Towers with Regular towers.
  • Replaced Dire Nerubian Towers with Regular towers.

4.0beta10

• Reduced number of Tower (Tier 2) from 2 to 1.

4.0beta6

• Ancient
  • Increased armor from 8 to 15.
  • Increased health from 5000 to 8000.
  • Increased health regeneration from 1 to 3.
• Increased Towers health from 1200 to 1300.

4.0beta5

• Towers now have 0.05 health regeneration.

4.0beta2

• Towers
  • Reduced number of Tower (Tier 1) from 2 to 1.
  • Increased gold bounty from 350‒449 to 351‒549.

3.2f

• Towers
  • Increased base attack damage from 90‒110 to 110‒130.
  • Increased Dire towers collision size from 120 to 144.

3.2a

• Towers
  • Changed the damage type from Chaos to Magic.
  • Rescaled base attack damage from 100 to 90‒110.
  • Rescaled gold bounty from 400 to 350‒449.
  • Radiant no longer deals splash damage. [?]

0.96b

• Ancient
  • Radiant
    • Increased health from 4975 to 5000.
    • Changed attack projectile speed from instant to 750.
    • Increased attack damage from 31‒40 to a constant 100.
    • Reduced base attack time from 2.5 to 1.5.
    • Increased armor from 1 to 8.
    • Increased attack range from 128 to 600.
  • Dire
    • Fixed Dire Ancient's attack.
    • Reduced attack projectile speed from 900 to 750.
    • Increased attack damage from 0 to 100.
    • Increased base attack time from 0 to 1.5.
    • Increased armor from 5 to 8.
    • Increased attack range from 0 to 600.

Patch History

Patch

Description

16 Feb 2022

• Updated and removed various buildings' particles and effects, and destruction animations.

03 Nov 2021

• Fixed a bug with tower target selection when the tower's current target is very near the limit of a tower's attack range.

25 Mar 2021

• Updated the Backdoor Protection icon.

25 May 2020

• Towers
  • Radiant
    • Towers destruction sounds.
      • Increased pitch from 0.975 to 1.0
      • Increased pitch randomizer range from -0.025/0.025 to -0.05/0.05
    • Towers destruction global sounds.
      • Increased pitch from 0.975 to 1.0
      • Disabled sound limiter, so that more than one instance can play at a time.
  • Dire
    • Added pitch randomizer to destruction sound, -0.05/0.05
    • Disabled sound limiter of tower destruction global sound, so that more than one instance can play at a time.

26 Feb 2020

• Fixed creep-heroes wrongly disabling Backdoor Protection.
• Reduced building destruction sound max falloff distance from 6000 to 4500.

10 Dec 2019

• Outpost
  • Increased soundlevel of Outpost capture from 90 to 93.
  • Reduced experience reward sound volume from 0.5 to 0.4.

29 Nov 2019

• Fixed a case where Outposts could give experience to a team twice.
• Update 2
  • Updated portraits of Radiant towers.
  • Updated portraits of Dire towers and filler buildings.

27 Nov 2019

• Outpost
  • Reduced channel sound volume from 1 to 0.8.
  • Reduced channel sound radius from 1200 to 600.
  • Updated capture sound to not be overtoned by non-ultimate ability sounds.
• Update 4
  • Fixed Outpost portrait.

26 Nov 2019

• Update 7
  • Added description to the Outpost invulnerability buff telling that they are not available yet.

08 Aug 2019

• The Filler Building in front of Radiant Tower (Tier 4) is closer.

07 Dec 2018

• Fountain Damage
  • Now cancels effects similar to hero damage (e.g. Healing Salve, Heart of Tarrasque, Blink Dagger etc.).
  • Now has 25% accuracy.

Note: This change was added in an update last week.

11 Jul 2018

• Updated Tower Protection icon.

01 Feb 2018

• Increased Tower Protection tier 1 tower armor bonus from 1 to 2.
• Added visual effects and deterioration to damaged towers.
• Buildings now show an effect when getting hit under Backdoor Protection.
• Added spectating view for Glyph of Fortification.
• Updated missing buff icons on tower auras.

16 Jan 2018

• Alt+ Left Click now prints the building health percentage.

30 Nov 2017

• Updated and optimized Glyph of Fortification particle effects.

17 Nov 2017

• Update 2
  • Glyph of Fortification
    • Added new particle effects.
    • Fixed other particle effects.

14 Nov 2017

• Fixed towers not scaling as intended in Turbo Mode.

01 Aug 2017

• Audio lines for Shrines being attacked and destroyed have been added to the default announcer pack.

08 Jun 2017

• Response rules have been added for the destruction of Shrines.

17 Mar 2017

• Tower Protection based on nearby enemies is now shown in the HUD only to the attacking team.

16 Mar 2017

• Added tooltip modifiers for towers to indicate their new armor change from 7.03.

10 Feb 2017

• The Alt+ Left Click message for Shrines has been changed from Gather for Sanctuary. to Gather for Shrine.

12 Jan 2017

• Shrines will now show their heal radius with Alt until the healing ability completes.

06 Jan 2017

• Improved some tooltips for buffs granted by buildings.

26 Jul 2017

• Added error notification that tells you that you need to be either dead or near Fountain to swap cosmetics in-game.

21 Dec 2016

• Added notification when a Shrine is destroyed.

20 Dec 2016

• Fixed a typo in the Alt+ Left Click Shrine gathering message.

19 Dec 2016

• Update 2
  • Updated the Shrine gathering strings to show the auto chat icon.

16 Dec 2016

• Some response rules have been added for when Shrines are under attack.

12 Dec 2016

• Update 2
  • Fixed Sanctuary not activating with force right-click attack (A+ Right Click) enabled.
• Update 5
  • Updated Glyph of Fortification ability tooltips and Hotkeys.

05 Oct 2016

• Added icon indicating that the building is protected by Backdoor Protection.
• A shorter form of Radiant and Dire titles have been added for areas where The Radiant and The Dire would not fit.

31 Aug 2016

• Added building damage to the Post-Game Summary Scoreboard (the number represents damage dealt to Towers and Barracks).

23 Aug 2016

• Update 2
  • Added Tower Protection aura tooltip modifiers and description.

24 Mar 2016

• Towers
  • Selecting a tower will now display the tower's attack range and its current target.
  • Added Holding Alt Shows Tower Attack Range option to display tower attack range and its current target with Alt.
  • Can now be targeted in Fog of War without giving the invulnerability error.
• Barracks now name the player that killed them in the chat log.
• Effigies
  • Now name the player that killed them in the chat log.
  • Adjusted the input field for effigy text to not allow more text than will display.
• Backdoor Protection
  • Fixed ability not being removed by magic immune or invulnerable lane creeps.
  • Fixed a very small window where towers could be vulnerable every 3 seconds.
• Fixed Rejuvenation Aura not affecting invulnerable units.
• Fixed Glyph of Fortification interrupting Phase Shift.
• Fixed being able to Plant wards inside buildings.

05 Jan 2016

• Fixed Glyph of Fortification not affecting Effigies.

23 Dec 2015

• Fixed ability interactions between Tidebringer and Towers.

16 Dec 2015

• Fixed Dire towers destruction portraits.
• Update 4
  • Fixed some map exploits with planted trees around the Fountain.
• Update 5
  • Fixed Rejuvenation Aura missing its ability icon.

12 Nov 2015

• Fixed an issue where Radiant Fountain and buildings particle effects would sometimes not be present when spectating.
• Updated portraits for numerous buildings.

22 Oct 2015

• Fixed Dire Fountain ramp collision size.

06 Oct 2015

• Fixed unit selection boxes on Dire Barracks to match the size of the Radiant Barracks.

03 Oct 2015

• Fixed being able to use Healing Salve and Clarity on Towers.

15 Sep 2015

• Fixed a bug where some particle systems on buildings would not render when in Fog of War.
• Reduced Fountain collision size.

14 Sep 2015

• Fixed Dire Fountain ramp width.

14 Aug 2015

• Fixed a bug with Dire Towers attack speed.

18 Jun 2015

• Fixed a crash when Radiant or Dire Ancient after being destroyed.

05 May 2015

• Fixed Fountain vision malfunctioning with .

30 Apr 2015

• Update 7
  • Fixed Shadow Walk debuff affecting buildings.

20 Feb 2015

• Fixed Towers denied while in the Fog of War taking too long to disappear.

17 Dec 2014

• Added Alt+ Left Click support for Glyph of Fortification, to announce its current status.
  • Ctrl+Alt+ Left Click will print message suggesting to team not to use the ability yet.

21 Nov 2014

• Fixed Glyph of Fortification tooltip being too large sometimes.

20 Nov 2014

• Added new health bars for Ancients.
• Added and created effigy buildings.
  • Effigies modify the appearance of filler buildings in the player's base. They have different textures for the Radiant / Dire bases. A message is displayed whenever an effigy is destroyed in-game.
• Update 2
  • Fixed some effigy bugs.

29 Apr 2014

• Fixed being not able to cast Plant at the position of recently destroyed buildings.
• Fixed True Strike working against non-tower buildings.

05 Feb 2014

• Fixed Radiant having vision for a small area just outside the Dire Fountain.

03 Feb 2014

• Update 2
  • Fixed Focus Fire not working on buildings.

18 Dec 2013

• Fixed a case where Backdoor Protection would malfunction.

14 Jun 2013

• Fixed True Strike causing you to be unable to miss against Towers.
• Fixed Effigies having no armor.

22 Mar 2013

• Fixed Towers attack speed being too low.
• Fixed Fountain projectile speed being too fast.

21 Mar 2013

• Fixed Towers sometimes attacking you too soon when moving out of range.

24 Jan 2013

• Fixed buildings affecting Fervor.

18 Jan 2013

• Fixed Pierce dealing bonus damage to buildings.

09 Aug 2012

• Fixed Shadow Walk damaging buildings.
• Fixed Tombstone receiving too much aggro from towers.

18 Jul 2012

• Update 2
  • Fixed Song of the Siren not affecting invulnerable Towers.

11 Jul 2012

• Update 2
  • Fixed Meld working against Towers.
  • Fixed Psi Blades damage spill affecting buildings.

24 May 2012

• Fixed a bug that could sometimes allow Jinada to work on buildings.

16 May 2012

• Update 2
  • Fixed Towers not revealing invisible Siege Creep affected by Nature's Guise.
  • Fixed Living Armor effect radius against buildings.

12 Apr 2012

• Towers
  • Fixed Chronosphere not freezing invulnerable Towers.
  • Fixed printing the wrong kill message when an illusion kills a Tower.
• Fixed being unable to use Glyph of Fortification while disabled.

28 Mar 2012

• Added Rejuvenation Aura ability effect for Fountain heal.

22 Mar 2012

• Fixed Unstable Current damaging Towers, note that towers can still proc the ability.

08 Mar 2012

• Fixed being able to transfer Nightmare to Towers.
• Fixed buildings visually popping back to earlier state when being damaged repeatedly.

16 Feb 2012

• Fixed Headshot bonus proc damage working against buildings.
• Fixed the following buildings' collision size:
  • Barracks
  • Effigies

19 Jan 2012

• Fixed Greater Bash bonus damage working on buildings.

12 Jan 2012

• Fixed the following ability affecting buildings:
  • Jinada
  • Shadow Walk
• Fixed Open Wounds healing Towers.
• Added attack icon and ‼ Ping for enemy buildings.
• The warning about Ancient being under attack always plays, even if there are heroes nearby defending it.

21 Dec 2011

• Fixed server crash that could happen occasionally as the Ancient is destroyed.

08 Dec 2011

• Ancient
  • All units are now pushed away from the Ancient when it's destroyed.
  • Added Radiant Ancient destruction animations.

01 Dec 2011

• Fixed Greevil's Greed working on buildings.

10 Nov 2011

• Added a cooldown sound for clicking the Glyph of Fortification while it is on cooldown.
• Added stingers for the following buildings' destruction:
  • Towers
  • Barracks
• Fixed some visual bugs related to buildings destruction.

03 Nov 2011

• Fixed Backdoor Protection deactivating when dominated units are nearby.

27 Oct 2011

• Fixed Spiderling abilities (i.e. Poison Sting and Spawn Spiderite) working on buildings.
• Fixed Rejuvenation Aura maximum mana as mana regeneration being too slow.
• Fixed Gold bounty values on lane creeps after the respective lane's Barracks is down.
• Towers
  • Fixed Pierce proccing on towers.
  • Fixed towers not revealing invisible non-hero units (e.g. Spiderling, Hawk etc.).
  • Adjusted the tower projectile collision so that projectiles will actually reach towers before exploding.

13 Oct 2011

• Added Hotkey settings Glyph of Fortification.
• Fixed Disguise consider a Tower was still alive for a bit after it was destroyed.

06 Oct 2011

• Fixed Ancient health regeneration not working.
• Fixed illusions doing significantly reduced damage to buildings.

29 Sep 2011

• Fixed heroes being able to get stuck between a building and a rock in Dire's base.
• Fixed Fountain vision range.

16 Sep 2011

• Fixed various pathing issues around Towers.

15 Sep 2011

• Fixed various pathing issues around Towers.

09 Sep 2011

• Fixed where you could not Right Click on items or friendly units that were behind allied buildings.
• Fixed spectator getting an error message when pressing Glyph of Fortification.
• Towers
  • Fixed Shadow Walk working against Towers.
  • Fixed attack range.
  • Fixed various AI bugs.
  • Fixed the Gold bounty when lane creeps gets the last hit on a tower.

09 Aug 2011

• Fixed Fountain vision at night to be the same as its 1800 daytime vision.

07 Aug 2011

• Fixed Towers attack range being slightly off.
• Fixed Fountain not having True Sight.

05 Aug 2011

• Towers
  • Added Tiers to Towers. The towers near the center are Tower (Tier 1), and each row of Towers increase in Tiers to the Tower (Tier 4) near the Ancient.
  • Fixed team gold bounty for Tower kill by 40 (and 20 for denies) per Tier.
  • Tower (Tier 1) gold bounty now grants 200 team bonus and Tower (Tier 4) grants 320 team bonus.
• Filler buildings
  • They are now invulnerable until the appropriate time.
  • Fixed most cases of lane creeps attacking filler buildings before Barracks.

03 Aug 2011

• Added tooltip and button state to Glyph of Fortification.
• Summoned units will no longer disable Backdoor Protection.

02 Aug 2011

• Poison no longer affects buildings.

29 Jul 2011

• Glyph of Fortification
  • Added button for ability the right side of the HUD.
  • Added Glyph of Fortification use announcer messages and chat messages.
• Fixed a rare case where a Tower may not have attacked a hero that was attacking another hero if a third hero on the first hero's team standing just beyond the tower's attack range was also attacking a hero.

08 Jul 2011

• Fixed the following abilities to not proc on buildings:
  • Chain Lightning
  • Chain Lightning

01 Jul 2011

• Fixed Poison Attack affecting buildings.
• Fixed hero voiceover lines from triggering while taking tower damage.
• Fixed Backdoor Protection code kicking in when trying to deny buildings.

17 Jun 2011

• Ancients now have True Sight.
• Fixed Diabolic Edict doing damage to buildings with Glyph of Fortification active.
• The following items' unique attack modifier is not considered when attacking buildings.
  • Maelstrom
  • Mjollnir

10 Jun 2011

• Added Backdoor Protection to the appropriate towers and buildings.

26 May 2011

• Fixed Chronosphere moving buildings.
• Fixed the following abilities affecting towers:
  • Damage Return
  • Last Will

14 Apr 2011

• Fixed bug that would give excess Gold bounty on tower kills when illusions were present.

12 Mar 2011

• Fixed the following abilities working on towers:
  • Crystal Nova
  • Cold Attack
• Fixed Quell working on buildings.
• Fixed Radiant middle towers being removed on spawn after a changelevel if they were destroyed on the previous game on that server.

03 Mar 2011

• Fixed Corrosive Skin working on buildings.
• Fixed Chronosphere not affecting invulnerable towers.
• Added in new announcer lines for killing towers and barracks.
• Adding in a delay on building attack messages to be less spammy.
• Buildings that are under attack glow red when the sound event goes off.

09 Feb 2011

• Fixed Radiant Ranged Creep not properly getting upgraded after barracks is destroyed.

04 Feb 2011

• Fixed cases where units affected by Glyph of Fortification could still take physical damage.
• Towers
  • Fixed Berserker's Call working on towers.
  • Fixed towers doing too much damage to lane creeps.
  • Fixed tower doing slightly too little damage to heroes.

30 Jan 2011

• Added error checking for trying to move a unit that is not capable of moving (i.e. Buildings).

27 Jan 2011

• Fixed Anchor Smash damaging buildings.
• Fixed the following ability interactions with Towers:
  • Great Cleave no longer cleaves while attacking towers.
  • Tidebringer no longer cleaves while attacking towers.
  • Cleave no longer cleaves while attacking towers.
  • Counter Helix no longer procs from tower attacks.
  • Overload using up charge against towers.

22 Jan 2011

• Fixed being able to lifesteal off buildings.