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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Added

• Extra challenge to the Refiner.
• Inventory toggle UI button.
• Initial implementation of containers.

Improved

• Adjusted monster spawn rates.
• Birds now perch only on small platforms.
• Better performance with large numbers of rooms.
• Camera now feels a bit more natural.
• House prefab is more easily traversable.
• Game window size is now saved.
• Limit ground creatures to spawn in areas with enough room to walk.

Changed

• Replaced all progression-sensitive assets in spawned areas with broken versions.
• Rearranged the map.

Fixed

• Clicking on controls incorrectly triggers attacks.
• Crafting menu, map, dial menu and interactions could be opened and closed while interacting with NPCs.
• Lots of Swooper behavioral bugs.
• Tiles could be placed on indestructible tiles.

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Added

• The map now has fog of war, meaning I can now hide things from you.
• More new monsters, including monsters that exist only in certain areas.

Improved

• Changes to the overall game flow (the first of many.)
• Loot bags now display their contents instead of a bag.
• New backwards compatibility features so your savegame can persist for a long time.
• Better determinism.
• Reduce monster pack spawning while not moving.

Fixed

• Issue that could cause monster spawning to be paralyzed for a time.

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