Hi everyone,

We've spent a lot of time looking through your feedback and bug reports, and wanted to get some of the biggest issues resolved as soon as possible; which has been the main focus of this update.

There's plenty more for us to do in terms of bug fixes, balance and quality of life changes, as well as some cool new features which are being worked on as we speak. So if you reported an issue recently and can't see it fixed in this update, have no fear - we're working on it!

Release Notes

Crafting + Resources + Equipment:

• Forged Energy Restoration and Cleanse Bombs functionality have been rolled into Healing Bombs. This should make it a lot easier for players to craft healing bombs (less competing Boons in the Special Boon type and less Boon points required for the first tier), as well as reducing the need for healers to constantly swap bomb types mid battle.
• At rank one, Healing bombs will restore health points to players, at rank two the bombs will restore health and energy. At rank three, they will recover health and stamina as well as cleanse players of debuffs.
• Added new Forging tutorial Objectives. These should better introduce players to the Forging system and learning the mechanics involved.
• Further Atlas refinements for resources so that the new gradient coloration is additionally consistently coloured so that you can directly compare one resource map against another and know that the "green area" of one has the same resource count as the "green area" on another which was not strictly true with the atlases in the last release that still did per-map contrast enhancement which skewed the reality somewhat.
• Blocks that drop extra drops now also drop themselves.
• Brews and Food now display their attributes and effect on a player.
• ncreased the damage on Gold tools to bring their DPS more into line with Silver and Iron Tools.
• Adjusted food crafting level for a number of different ingredients, so that every ingredient can be used to craft a food without needing to add a new skill point. This will reduce the amount of clutter in a new players Knowledge and crafting menus, as well as reduce any confusion as to what these ingredients can be used for.
• Bag of Sugar now requires level 2 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Fortified Butter now requires level 5 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Purified Butter now requires level 5 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Bag of Rice now requires level 3 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Bag of Baking Powder now requires level 4 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Butter Base now requires level 5 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Bag of Oats now requires level 2 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Bag of Flour now requires level 4 food crafting (up from level 1)
• Adjusted crafting level for Brew containers to reduce clutter in a new players Knowledge screen, and to reduce confusion about the containers and what brews to make with them.
• Brew Container 2 now requires level 2 brew crafting (up from level 1)
• Brew Container 3 now requires level 3 brew crafting (up from level 1)
• Brew Container 4 now requires level 4 brew crafting (up from level 1)
• Brew Container 5 now requires level 5 brew crafting (up from level 1)

Creatures + Combat + Characters:

• Reduced Cuttletrunk follow range. This should make it easier to escape from a persistent Cuttletrunk.
• Slow-Mo Quirk no longer slows action speed, just movement speed.
• Reworked cooldown to equalise Action Speed over all tools and weapons, allowing easier comparisons. The cool down periods should now be consistent and easier to understand.

Sanctum + Tutorial + Objectives + Progression:

[*]We had a review of Feats in game, a few of them were not correctly working, some were far too hard and others were just not fun. So we have tweaked a few numbers and replaced some of the offending feats with ones which should be more enjoyable. Overall, players should be in a better place to complete more objectives after these changes.

• Explorer player Warps used Feat replaced with fully exploring worlds Feat.
• Removed "Unique Items Gathered" and "Loose Stone Gathered" Gatherer Feats and replaced them with Boulder and Fungus Gathering feats. Plants Feat will now count rare and common plants.
• Removed Tax Avoided, Coin from Feats and Periodic Feats and replaced them with Selling Consumables, Selling Gear and Selling Items to Request Plinth Feats in the Trader Feats.
• World Gatherer Survival Challenge I, will now allow players to collect any Starberry and Earthyam to complete the objectives.

GUI + HUD:

• The I, O, P, J, K, L keys now work while in another screen.
• Added an animation to the health bar to show how long a creature will take to die once it has lost all health (due to network latency). You need to pay attention to a dangerous creature until the server says the creature is defeated.
• Always show the health bar on active meteorites.
• Added controller d-pad scrolling for emotes list.

Engine:

• Add reflections of the sky through portals, we continue not to support rendering the world in reflections through portals, but the sky/clouds/planets will at least now render so that portals do not look so horrific around water!
• Added a new system to support time limited events.
• Reduced the verbosity of a collection of server system logs.

Bug fixes:

• Unstable and Imperfect Boon Compounds are now easier to make, while the Pure Boon Compounds require slightly rarer resources.(Spitter Eyes). It did not make sense to have the best Boons be the easiest to craft.
• Fixed a long lived issue that could cause client crashes in particular circumstances surrounding portal transitions at ultra-low fps (<5fps, spikes included) whilst entities moved quickly across specific world boundaries in the server… sounds crazy (it is), it's one of the more common client crashes that has been happening for a very long time but required a long time to investigate and track down.
• Fixed issues where it was sometimes possible to close a screen with a popup still open.
• Fixed chat and popup input boxes both receiving text at the same time.
• Fixed delete character popup deleting the character if the player hits enter.
• Fix for some controls in the settings screen not being localised.
• Fix loading screens to open in fullscreen mode if fullscreen is enabled.
• Fix not being able to square and bevel chisel various "dug-up" versions of blocks added from the last release (part of not having player placed blocks drop extra things when broken). Also fix these new blocks showing up in the World Builder when they should not.
• Fix errors opening a prefab in World Builder about lighting paths.
• Fix not being able to remove your own beacons that had expired/been-removed.
• Fix for bombs not always damaging an entity that triggered it's via a proximity explosion.
• Fix for scrolling in the GUI with the controller right stick.
• Fix world screen refreshing when a settlements prestige was updated.
• Fix to allow signs on PS4 to span multiple lines.
• Fixed a rare issue where player state could get reset returning to a world where the character serialisation reported a failure when it actually succeeded.
• Fixed a collection of feat and forging objective descriptions to improve clarity.
• Fixed an issue where Beacons could be destroyed if the beam from a Power Coil was running through the Beacon Control. This also allowed users with "Worker" permissions on a Beacon to have the ability to destroy it, which is why this fix was needed. In the future we may implement a system which allows a Beacon Owner to easily un-plot all of the land, as we know players would appreciate this functionality.

UPDATED

Unfortunately some patch notes were missing with this release, we believe we've now added everything that should have been there in the first place. It's frustrating for any release to have missing patch notes, we recognise that our process at the studio is not optimal currently and are making necessary adjustments which will mean all changes being submitted for a release always have a patch note explaining exactly what the change is and why the change is happening. We aim to have this new process in place for the next update.