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Weapon upgrade

Garden of Needle Ice

An official weapon upgrade record published by TEAM HORAY. Its source and patch version are shown on the record; branch ownership and live-game behavior are kept separate when they need another check.

Source-backedsword and shieldcoldice vine
Source version
1.0.31
Source reviewed
Pending review
Current version
Pending review
Last verified
Pending review
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Research record

Use it in your run · Editorial guidance

When to choose Garden of Needle Ice

This upgrade changes the behavior of Ice Vine for Sword & Shield. Compare it as an Ice Vine route rather than assuming every Cold-tag Artifact receives the same change.

  1. 1.Pair it with the named Ice Vine effect.
  2. 2.Read the orbiting behavior and cooldown change before planning how to move around enemies.
  3. 3.Try the unlocked pair in the Training Grounds before switching your next run’s direction.
Inspect the Ice Vine interaction

Recorded effect evidence

Cold Damage +5. Ice Vine orbits the player while active and no longer has a cooldown.

This visual lookup record is excluded from search indexing until it has a complete, current effect description.

Official patch record

TEAM HORAY · 1.0.31 Update · 2026-09-10

Version 1.0.31 added this explicitly named Sword & Shield upgrade with an Ice Vine behavior change.

This is a historical change recorded in the linked official update, not a claim that every value still matches the live tooltip.

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Effect evidence

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Weapon route

Sword & Shield

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