APICO News

• Fixed Paint Scraper crashing the game
  
• Fixed NPC menus not closing when you get too far away
  
• Fixed NPC dialogue not resetting when closing the menu but not saying goodbye (rude that you didn't say bye but okay)
  
• Fixed Infuser showing "need to add resin" error message when no items in the input
  
• Fixed machines cancelling a canister filling/draining when adding items to a slot
  
• Fixed wall reference grid caching when making a new world leading to glitched walls
  

• Added Dyes, crafted from flowers + glue, and can be used to dye objects, machines, crates, hives, walls, and tiles!
  
• Added Beenjamin into the demo! This grumpy ol' Beekeeper will give you hints on any undiscovered bees you're looking for, and sells some beekeeping related goodies (requires a new world)
  
• Added Brodux into the demo! This lil cutie sells the Jukebox, as well as music disks so you can play your favourite jams! (requires a new world)
  
• Added random structures to the world generation! (requires a new world)
  
• Crates generated in the world now have random items inside!
  
• Update the NPC conversation windows to look more fancy
  
• You can now sell honeycomb, propolis, glue, waterproof and sawdust for a small about of rubees each
  
• Updated the wording of the Uncommon Bee's hint
  
• Updated the "Shh, these bees are sleeping" message to be blue rather than red
  
• Added durability info to crafting icons + shop icons for frames + tools
  
• You can now put seeds in pots for decoration!
  
• Updated the home page to match the new game art, and added feedback form link
  
• Added a feedback/bug report button into the game which opens up our Google Form
  

• Fixed "target" menus not being reset when moving away / closing them by clicking their overworld sprite, meaning the inventory didn't automatically shift click to the next open menu
  
• Fixed undiscovered shiny bees not showing the black "undiscovered" sprite
  
• Fixed rehabeelitator showing slot "confetti" when a bee is released when the menu is closed
  
• Fixed some non-demo quests still showing a notification in the demo when getting certain items (boat, squeezer, backpack)
  
• Fixed NPC's not showing their appreciation when you buy stuff, so rude!
  
• Removed the hacky town lanterns from the world gen now that windows act as light sources, if your world was made before this patch then woooo free lanterns :D
  
• Fixed walls being highlightable (thats a word) through a menu
  
• Fixed the "Queen has finished her cycle" message showing when no bees are in the output slots
  
• Fixed the beehive help menu not showing correctly
  
• Fixed slots with 99 of an item showing the "change" effect when picking up more of that item
  
• Fixed bottler not working with exactly 100bl inside
  

• Added the boat and the backpack items to Skipper's shop in demo mode
  
• "Next Steps" quest now only unlocks 4 new quests instead of 7 to prevent players being overwhelmed by choices
  
• Changed "Menu Magic" to give 20 sticks as the reward instead of a crate to give a boost to the amount of sticks you have at the start
  
• Updated latin names to prevent favoritism towards bumblebee genus specifically (thanks @Entomancy!)
  
• Windows will now act as light sources, same size as lanterns
  
• Removed "rollover" sound from slots/chapters before @medusaur murders someone
  
• Updated conservation status message for the first 3 species that are already saved (that wasn't thanks to you, stop taking all the credit!!)
  
• Updated frame sprites to make the difference between empty, filled, and uncapped clearer
  
• Updated colour of stone tools to match stone palette
  
• Updated treetaps to say "Single-use" to make it clearer you can't get them back atm
  
• Updated hive bubble icon to show a little yellow bee when the hive is finished rather than a red "!" to remove the urgency
  
• Tweaked a few sprites to be in the correct colour palette
  

• Fixed closing a target menu by clicking on the placed machine not resetting the target
  
• Fixed "The Queen has finished her cycle" messages being in red, is now in yellow, again just to chill out a bit on the in your face messages all being "error" colors
  
• Fixed weather report notifications not resetting after the weather has gone / day has ended
  
• Fixed "Beekeeper's Delight" not being discovered in the flower book by default
  
• Fixed mouse "tool" icon showing on top of books
  
• Fixed climate trait icons being the wrong way round in the bee book
  
• Fixed typos in the apiary tooltip descriptions
  
• Fixed lighting going completely off of the correct position when using CTRL+R to reload the game
  
• Fixed scroll direction on books being in reverse on Windows/Linux
  
• Fixed scrolling on a map causing the game to crash
  
• Removed Steam connection on Itch/GJ builds to prevent the game failing to launch if steam is open
  

For World Bee Day, TNgineers worked to produce a brand new demo for the casual and chilled-out APICO.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/05/chilled-out-super-sweet-bee-keeping-game-apico-has-a-huge-new-demo-out

• Performance should be noticeably better on old machines and run at a silky smooth 60fps thanks to GameMaker
  
• In general a lot of things should work better with the menus + UIs
  
• You can now customise your characters hair and outfit on starting a new game!
  
• Re-named the in-game currency to RUBEES
  

• YOU CAN FINALLY PLACE STUFF WITHOUT EQUIPPING IT!!! Yes you read that right
  
• You can also pick up tools and use them on stuff with the mouse without equipping them
  
• You can now drop stuff with right-click!!! (high quality features here guys I know)
  
• Items have a much larger pickup radius so you don't have to get as close to them
  
• Items will yeet themselves towards you when you're close to them, magnet style
  

• Fixed various bees to quite working at the right time
  
• The Predictor is easily craftable from the start of the game to help understand the cross-breeding mechanics
  
• Cross-breeding chances are much kinder early on
  
• Each bee species now has a 'conversation status', which is improved the more you breed that species or release those bees back into the wild with a Rehabeelitator
  
• You can now 'ferment' your honey into mead! You can then bottle this mead to sell for a phat profit, or infuse the mead to grant special effects when you drink it (speed up, night vision, etc)
  
• All new bees have a chance to be a 'shiny' variant
  

• A bunch of quests have been made less wordy
  
• Notifications for quests open the quest book and scroll to the right chapter for you
  
• The bee book is introduced earlier so you don't need to get your first hybrid before getting it
  
• The bee book has a bunch of new info, covering conservation status and special produce
  
• There's now a sweet new animation when discovering a new bee! (pls enjoy it took so long)
  
• The Predictor is introduced around the same time to make the first hybrid easier
  

• Games take much quicker to load and save
  
• Floppy disk save icon is back in-game
• World generation is much quicker in general
  
• Game saves are pre-loaded on game start so if you pick the same save as the preloaded one it'll start the game instantly!
  

• You can hammer all the objects and tiles/walls in the town! Something, something great power great responsibility
  
• You can "pick up" npcs and bring them with you! Try not to lose them eh?
  
• Tweaked the stuff that Skipper sells to cover some of the new features
  

• Highlighted objects are shown even behind other objects with a little ghosting effect
  
• Better shore generation around islands
  
• Better lighting in day/night
  
• Added sunrise + sunset glow to dawn/dusk to help emphasise those times
  
• Added water reflections, because shaders are freaking awesome
  
• Flowers now spread as seedlings that grow into flowers - introduces seeds earlier
  
• Flowers now don't spread into yo damn house
  

• Birbs are no longer horrendously laggy or stupid
  
• Birbs can spawn in shallows now, but as lil seagulls!
  
• Birbs can be scared away by dropping sticks (as promised, finally the guide is no longer lying)
  

• You can now spam click slots and it doesn't sometimes magically lose items, what a treat
  
• Removed aspect ratio options - game fully resizes to the window whatever the size
  
• Removed scale options - same as above (displays over 1920 will go to 3x scale instead of 2x automatically, displays over 3000 will go to 4x scale)
  
• Menus now have lil open animations, cute!
  
• You can now preview tank amount when hovering over machines, preview item when hovering over crates, and preview queen when hovering over hives
  
• You can view the contents of a crate without opening it by shift-hovering over it!
  
• Added back the move 'button', as an alternative to the move "bar"
  
• Inventory has number "labels" for the hotbar
  
• A lot better "error" states for the mouse hover or item usage, should be much clearer what you can and can't do (and why)
  
• Control mapping is less buggy
  

• There's now game controller support! This has been tested with PS4 and Xbox360 official controllers - there is a known issue with Xbox One controllers. Just plug in your controller and it'll switch over, although we recommend having it in before starting the game and avoid switching between gamepad + mouse/keyboard
  
• Using a controller changes the game to "focus" mode - you can't open 100s of menus together but it should be a much more chill and easy experience now when using a gamepad
  

• Many
  
• So many oh my god every day new bugs
  

• Lots