Snacko News

[h2]🌱 Farming[/h2]

• [p]There is now farm tile information displayed on the HUD, showing the name/stage of the crop that is planted there, fertilizer/speed grow status, quality, and # days that the crop has been growing! (This can be disabled under Settings > Tweaks)[/p]
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• [p]Fixed an issue where seeds/harvesting/fertilization/etc. wasn't possible near a sprinkler[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where one sprinkler of all of your sprinklers wouldn't automatically go off at 6:30 AM[/p]

[h2]⛏️ Mines[/h2]

• [p]Sundered Loom: Effectiveness cut in half, 10% per level -> 5% per level[/p]
• [p]Touched by the Moon: Effectiveness cut in half, 20% per level -> 10% per level[/p]
• [p]Buff terminals can no longer be abused via save/load[/p]
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• [p]Fixed an issue that would keep the overclock options completely hidden in the Remnant Loom even after unlocking the feature at the Admin Terminal[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that would cause the loom to crash after processing too many items[/p]

[h2]📬 Other[/h2]

• [p]Crickets are now much quieter at night time[/p]
• [p]Sprite no longer attacks resources that the player can't break themselves[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue causing the shrine timer to be frame rate dependent[/p]

Meowllo! You may have noticed a flurry of updates over the past few days, we've been hard at work polishing things up and taking all of your feedback and bug reports into account! 🥴

Here's the batch of updates that have been made since our last patch note:

⛏ Mines
- Clearing last layers of voxel piles will no longer cause you to sometimes fall through the floor
- Valuable resource rooms will now be guarded by slightly more enemy spawns
- Earth Slimes now heal amount 5 -> 10
- No more rain sounds while within the mine floor areas
- Earth Slime: HP 40 -> 130
- Mines buffs that affect stamina no longer apply outside of the mines
- "Curse" now increases enemy spawn rate as well as enemy drop rate, damage, and increases their overall HP
- Myst piles are guarded more frequently by enemies
- Myst piles show up less frequently on earlier floors
- Log machines now properly collide with the player
- Additional balancing work to make sure nothing is breaking the economy 🙂

🏎 Kart
- Fuel consumption gem effects/mines buffs now properly affect the drill's fuel consumption
- HOV Unit now can activate multiple times midair before it runs out (so you can let it go early/reboost)
- Added a speedometer to the fuel meter

😻 NPCs
- Fixed an issue where daily dialogue lines would keep repeating until you saved/loaded the game again
- Mack is now able to be confessed to
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to trigger two different heart/friendship events at the same exact time
- No longer stack on top of each other, and will walk away from each other if they get too close to one another

🌽 Farming
- Wheat is now able to be grown in the Spring season
- Watering Can now properly gives you an "out of water" message when you're out of water
- Harvest and Seed planting animations now allow you to move, and are much shorter in duration
- Sprinklers no longer block the harvest/seed planting actions

🪓 Resources
- "Phantom" resource issue has been fixed, you should no longer notice resources that stay in place after destroying them (trees, rocks, etc.)
- Perfect charging your tool hits should now deal 100% more resource damage

📕 Quests
- New Horizon: Fixed an issue where quest wouldn't complete properly for players, leaving them in a state where they could not progress with the other NPC roles (carpenter, etc)
- Maven of the Sea: Checking the letter set now properly gives you quest progress
- Maven of the Sea: Talking to ember properly finishes the quest
- Just a Hobby I: Fertilizer bags should now properly trigger quest task progression (duplicated Fertilizer Bag recipe has also been removed)
- Limitations Of Cardboard And Glue: Fixed an issue where the quest would not successfully register that you had a Carpenter on the island
- Happy Frame Salesman: Now awards the following crafting recipes that were previously unavailable (Consumables->Exploration)
Tri-Flag Attachment
Cat Set Attachment
Dog Set Attachment
Bunny Set Attachment
- XP rewards have been hidden (but are still tracked), as skills will come back in a later update!


🌙 Shrines
- The player's velocity no longer carries over between shrine restarts
- Stamina wheel now shows a cooldown bar when your mini-dash has been used
- Mini-dash is now a buffered input, so using it right before the cooldown ends will perform a mini-dash the moment the cooldown ends

✨ Staff
- Greatly reduced the required Stellar Zeals per spell level. 1/1/1/2/2/3/3/4/5, down from 3/5/7/10/13/16/20/24/30
- Chonkify: Added fading effect to visualize when effect is beginning to end
- Chonkify: Fixing issue where it was possible to grow larger than intended 😦

❓ Other
- Fixing issue where it was possible to open the builder kit UI while talking to Miss Curator, causing a softlock
- Player pin is no longer rotated by 90 degrees when in the Desert Canyon
- No longer possible to use sleeping boxes during cutscenes (such as finding the land sprite, etc); additionally, players who accidentally did this should no longer be softlocked in the quest progression


If you'd like more frequent updates on what's in each patch, I do create smaller patch notes for every build that goes live in our Discord server.

Coming up next is achievements - I'm excited to finally release these soon!

Thank you so much for playing our game, and for all the awesome feedback! 🥰

- recursive

Meowllo! We have another round of fixes, polish, and drop rate balancing.
Thank you for all the feedback so far, we're still chewing through our list of polish and things to do, so thank you for your patience 💖

[h2]🚗 Kart[/h2]

• Fuel now recharges while you are in the kart,
  
• Drill now properly deactivates when you run out of fuel,
  
• Drill fuel consumption has been lowered slightly,
  

[h2]⛏️ Mine[/h2]

• Holes should no longer be generating in layouts,
  
• Terminals should no longer be displaying the "Recipe" card when you've learned all available recipes,
  
• Voxel drops have been nerfed, again,
  
• Fixed a number of cases where resources within mine layouts would cause floating resources to spawn,
  
• Pickaxe and Gardening Hoe no longer consume incredible amounts of stamina when breaking voxels
  
• Bats and Flying Casters no longer drop infinite loot if you juggle them while they are dying,
  
• Music now properly changes as you descend through the mine floors,
  
• Fishing areas within the mine now properly spawn different kinds of fish as you descend,
  
• Myst Voxels now drop Crystal Clusters,
  
• Fixed an issue where ascending in the elevator from the ending floor would warp you to Floor 0 if you chose to go to lobby
  

[h2]🗃️ Remnant Loom[/h2]

• Multiple drop rate/rarity calculation issues have been addressed! Certain items in the recipe were unable to be dropped, especially as your drop rate increased through buff usage,
  
• "Drop rate" has been reworded to "Luck modifier" to more accurately reflect what it does, as this behaves more like magic find instead of a traditional drop rate buff,
  
• Touched by the Moon: temporary buff has been adjusted to give +20% luck per temporary level, down from +100% per level,
  
• Touched by the Moon: permanent buff has been adjusted to give +10% luck per permanent level, down from +25% per level
  

[h2]✨ Other[/h2]

• Damage on various spells have been increased to make damage comparable to using the Axe/Pickaxe
  
• Fixes for fish appearance rates
  
• Fixed a softlock issue with being able to enter the Builder's Kit while falling asleep/in dialogues,
  
• Spellbook now properly shows the "Build" prompt when hovered in the hotbar,
  
• "Miaothoven" painting is now placeable,
  
• "Disable Minimap" setting now properly persists across level transitions
  

• SOFTLOCK on "What's That Sound...?" fixed
  
• If you have discovered logs, please go to your Journal's Logs tab and claim all the items and recipes
  

• Cutscenes will no longer change your character's run/walk state after ending
  
• Quest reparenting to make sure there are no spoilers for later story beats
  
• Building Materials II will now give credit for crafting Fasteners
  
• Dyeable buildables will now have a paintbrush icon in the list while browsing
• Filling up a cooking station will no longer cause lock items
  
• Charge bar animation will properly reset when clicking too fast or using auto tool swing
  
• Allowing same keybinds on controller
  
• Added additional recipe for Concrete Slab. Please reclaim "Building Materials I" quest rewards if you've already completed it
  
• Less occurrence of finding resource piles in the mines; some piles will now have different layers of materials
  
• Fixed crashes in mines
  

If you have any issues with your game or save file, feel free to DM me on Discord (enralis) or email me at enralis {at} bluecurse {.} com

Thank you very much for your warm reception of Snacko so far 💖

Meowdy!

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