Added

• Highlight around never-before-seen crafting recipes.
• Map button on the UI.
• Popup banner when a new craftable item is discovered.
• A bunch of trash drops. These aren’t useful … yet.

Improved

• Graphics during rainstorms.
• Better error messages when attempting to load an impossible-to-load game.
• Attack buffering increased and no longer cancels on button-up.
• Better notifications when loading old (or from-the-future) savegames.
• Error messages on loading unloadable saves.

Changed

• Placeable flip now resets on picking a new item.
• Crafting recipes now show up only once you’ve discovered the ingredients.

Fixed

• Birds stick to walls.
• Uncommon collision desync.
• Performance analytics issues after loading a game.
• Multiplayer vulnerability.
• Various ways item-based information tags could fail to be updated.
• Replay sync issues related to Arbor trees.
• Old savegame compatibility bug.
• Collision error with very specific slope layouts.

Modding

• Replays now support seeks and step forward/back.
• Add range debug parameters.
• Add a flip-selection button to the editor.
• Replay generation now gives better feedback.
• Change chunk serialization to avoid out-of-bounds tiles.
• Add text descriptions to all debug commands and flags.
• Convert all ranges to explicit [inclusive,exclusive) format.
• Chunks now complain if there’s bedrock embedded in them.
• Remove a number of no-longer-relevant debug commands and flags.

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Added

• Crafting picker now supports search.
• Map now updates properly in realtime.
• More item tags for more useful tooltips.
• Categories in the crafting picker.

Improved

• Sorting for craftables and housing.
• Error reporting feedback made a little better.
• Selection background not quite as oppressive.
• Rain is now better-layered and follows ground contours properly.
• Deposit-item dialog icon size increased.
• Quickbar items with zero available will be grayed out.
• Particle effects on the broken Terminus.
• Errors saving will no longer be silently eaten.
• Moved icon count number into the corner.
• Added close box to Crafting and Housing windows.
• Dig particle effects in tight quarters.
• Collision-related performance issues.
• Disabled debug code that was causing performance issues on some computers; we’ll make this an option later.
• Performance with large houses and a lot of creatures.

Changed

• Inventory items now dim out when you’re holding them, hopefully reducing inventory management confusion.
• Construct/deconstruct range is now octagonal instead of circular in order to make flat floors and ceilings a little less annoying to build.
• Crafting window now grays out items that you can’t make.
• Invert scrollwheel behavior.

Fixed

• Game crash if you try to save over a readonly file.
• Breadcrumb text regarding crystals.
• Various jitter movement issues.
• Grayscale insufficiently gray.
• Render error with some particle systems.
• Obscure case where specific tile layouts at specific places could result in invalid geometry.
• Some particle systems leak memory.
• Uncommon spawn errors caused by a minor miscalculation.

Modding

• Added: Additive particles.
• Added: Check for too-large placeables. These are supportable, just not supported right now. Let me know if you want a really big placeable for whatever reason.
• Improved: More control over which layers contribute to collision.
• Improved: replay cropping functionality.
• Fixed: Debug console no longer broken.
• Hyperspeed debug flag changed to gameSpeed, now supports slomo.
• Moving a window titlebar or edge is now much less prone to accidentally building things.

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Added

• Tooltip indicators for what type of item something is.
• More useful error boxes on savefile errors.
• Preview for placeable items.
• Tooltips in the housing picker.
• Quit-without-saving confirmation dialog.

Improved

• Associate Housing dialog is now more responsive and requires less clicking. Also some of the text is worse; work in progress.
• Error messages when placing stuff that doesn’t have support.
• Item names in tooltips.
• Disabled debug code that was causing performance issues on some computers; we’ll make this an option later for modders.
• Ceiling nudging to assist the player in making tight jumps.
• Bookshelves can now be walked on and used as a shelf.

Changed

• Increase the particle effect a little bit on block destruction.
• Significant tweaks to how mining works.
• Temporarily disable the avatar’s swordslash animation because it doesn’t have proper multi-directional attacks.
• Chests can now be placed on platforms.
• Inventory pane cleanup and reorganization.
• Autoselect sword on resurrection.
• Things made without solid matter no longer survive a transition.

Fixed

• Enemies could generate errors if their target died at exactly the wrong instant.
• Sync error related to monster spawning.
• You can open the escape menu while on the main menu.
• Tooltip can move offscreen.
• Harmless error on game load.
• Error on mouseover’ing the sword.

Modding

• Moved breadcrumb/map/savegame startup parameters into their own category in the Debug flag window.
• Add support for Dec, enum, and string debug fields.
• Make it possible to add new placement restrictions in mod code.
• Immediately restart game when changing the map/saveFile startup options.
• Fix click bleed-through with debug windows.

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Added

• Particle effect on digging.
• Uneven Surface error when trying to put an object on a slope.
• Look up/down by holding a direction.
• Hold Shift to avoid AoE on deconstruction.
• Deeper background behind many items to avoid being able to see houses in deep dungeon.

Changed

• Disable second-gen tutorial, it’s just confusing.
• Landed eagles can now be attacked.
• Exit main menu immediately when loading a game.
• Reduce autosave frequency.
• Added a Near Death state where you are at 0 health. Death now requires getting hit when at zero health.
• AoE destruction will stop jumping back to removing backgrounds.
• Can’t pick up containers until they’re empty.

Fixed

• Ugly black borders at the edge of the world.
• Game autosaves on the menu scene.
• UI sometimes scales incorrectly on startup.
• A whole bunch of annoying issues with improper window sizing.

Improved

• Robots now look angrier when attacking instead of when not attacking.
• Sage dialog made a little clearer.
• Tutorial made a little clearer.
• Delay Terminus spawn and spawnsplosion until after the player has entered Biofactory.
• Performance on plot-maintenance functions.
• Unfixed console is now noticeable.
• More noticeable NPCs when they want to talk.
• Return-to-main-menu conversation items no longer show alerts.

Modding

• Selection support inside the editor.
• Support drag-selection-to-move in editor mode.

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Added

• New things deep in the ground. Been down there recently?
• Inventory/container sort buttons.
• Parallax for better environment art.
• Highlight slots with new items.
• “Report” button to allow you to send error reports in. Let me know what’s broken!

Improved

• Adjusted some breadcrumb categorization.
• You can now pick up loot by right-clicking on it.
• Debug console no longer appears outside dev mode.
• Sword-slash direction is now based on screen position, not character position.

Changed

• Zone size adjustment and content rearrangement.
• Hide-UI moved from tilde to F11 to reduce accidentally presses.
• Move chest contents to the right of the player inventory.

Fixed

• Grounded creatures sometimes incorrectly try to spawn at the zero coordinate.
• Critters spawning inside Vorota.
• Map generation fails occasionally.
• Movement hitches that would sometimes happen while digging.
• Errors when creating a new game.
• Avatar incapable of spawning on broken ground.
• Seed instability with some map components.
• Windowed mode would sometimes still be fullscreen.
• Various desyncs and inconsistencies.
• Error spam on the intro scene.
• Placing a door on a player results in the player being bumped.
• Terminus could end up spawning on the wrong map.
• Terraform AoE allows removing stuff outside range of placing stuff.
• Window should no longer end up offscreen.
• If you’re on the edge of the world, monster spawning causes errors.
• AI bug causing problems in protacted fights with certain monsters.
• Map generation error resulting in teleport glitches on startup.
• Uncommon threading issue that could break game saving.
• Badly phrased breadcrumbs.
• Teleport issues when recovering from rare movement issues.
• Missing background tiles in a few chunks.
• Rare cases where loading a game could generate errors.
• Refiner kicks you out of interact after repairing it.

Modding

• Added: Hyperspeed support to replay playback.
• Added: Add option to hide foreground tiles in the editor.
• Fix: CombatStance cursor setting no longer works properly.
• Fix: Warnings on eyedroppering some tiles.

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Added

• Another tier of Sage breadcrumbs. What could be out there?
• Map is now re-enabled, with fog of war.
• New tile type for pipelike things, and new pipe tiles.

Improved

• Monster spawns should better fit the biome.

Fixed

• Creatures don’t spawn in abandoned buildings.
• Digging in tight spaces would sometimes cause the player to teleport long distances.
• The tower would sometimes spawn with holes in it.

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