Dota 2 July 1 patch fixes Dark Carnival bugs and tweaks Ranked Roles

Valve dropped a Dota 2 bug-fix update on July 1, 2026, covering Dark Carnival, general gameplay, items, and heroes. No balance numbers changed — this one is all fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

The biggest Dark Carnival change is a new Scrap ticket economy: Regular games now award 2 Scrap and Turbo games award 1, and 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. You earn Scrap win or lose. Seeing Stones can now drop from Co-op Bot Matches on Hard and Unfair difficulties, and the Candyworks shop now flags items you already own so you don't accidentally waste a reroll. Several Dark Carnival bugs are squashed too — the Ticket Trader not working after unlock, Ability Draft and co-op bot matches failing to grant tickets, Fortune Teller rerolls being wrongly capped by the weekly limit, and Pick the Lock gameplay behaving differently depending on your FPS.

On the general side, Ranked Roles got a meaningful tweak: you no longer need to select both high-demand roles to avoid spending a Role Queue Game — selecting just one is enough now. A handful of nastier bugs are also gone, including one where ability charges could get permanently stuck on Aghanim's Scepter upgrades after repeatedly dropping and picking up the item, recipes in the stash auto-combining when you received a shard from killing Tormentor, and Tower Glyph of Fortification Multishot attacks incorrectly having True Strike. Cleave no longer benefits from spell lifesteal, and Dark Carnival Pies no longer reveal which hero is real versus an illusion. Neutral creep fixes hit Granite Golem, Prowler's Shaman, and Wildwing Ripper.

On the items side, Soul Ring gets a small UI upgrade — its temporary mana now shows as a distinct segment in the mana bar. Conjurer's Catalyst, Gem of True Sight, Harmonizer, and Ironwood Nut all received bug fixes. Hero-specific fixes cover Alchemist, Arc Warden, and others listed in the patch notes. No word yet on when the next major balance patch arrives, but the Dark Carnival event is clearly still being actively maintained.