Garlic Knight Update
0.55
20 June 2026
Mash and Slash
Released
Garlic Knight Update
A changelist for Mash and Slash.
🎁 Added
- Garlic Knight — a new melee ally bruiser. Recruit him from the shop and he charges into the fray, cleaving whole packs of enemies with his sword. Scales with Engineering like your other allies, completing the ranged / turret / melee trio.
- Three new achievements: Knight Hunter (slay 10 Elite Axe Knights), Cleanup Crew (defeat 150 enemies), and Extermination (defeat 500 enemies).
- New sound effects for buying and selling in the shop, blocked actions you can't afford yet, and unlocking achievements.
🧼 Improved
- The follow/hunt toggle now controls ALL allies (renamed to "ALLIES"). In Hunt mode your Tater Tot and Garlic Knight now split up and target different enemies instead of swarming the same one.
- The achievements menu is now sorted into categories (Combat, Bosses, Survival, Arsenal, Getting Started) with tidier tiles.
- The calm coin-pickup flash is now smaller and more subtle.
- Tidied the options menu — the speed slider now sits alongside the SFX and music sliders.