APICO News

• The game is out now (durr)
  
• Added High Contrast Text mode (experimental!)
  
• Increased shiny chance from 5% to 8%
  

• Fixed world lagging for a few minutes when starting a new world until a restart due to every beehive in the world being active (oops)
  
• Fixed gamepad device selection button on PC flickering a lot
  
• Fixed beeboxes not working with a gamepad
  
• Fixed being able to paint NPCs on gamepad (poor Green Skipper)
  
• Fixed in-game settings/controls/access menus having their close button hidden (ESC still closed them)
  
• Fixed crash "gml_Object_ob_slot_Alarm_1 - Unable to find instance for object index"
  
• Fixed crash "gml_Script_sc_button_press - Unable to find instance for object index"
  
• Fixed crash "gml_Script_sc_beebank_draw - ds_map_find_value argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) expecting a Number"
  
• Fixed Backpacks sometimes close themselves with no apparent cause.
  
• Fixed lag between clicking button amount and box update in Workbench
  
• Fixed birbs facing right when flying left (oh god)
  
• Fixed showing an extra chapter in the bee book
  
• Fixed unread quests not showing the "!!!" icon
  
• Fixed beehive preview not showing on hover, same for crates
  
• Fixed holding hammer in slot 0 and using backpack can give player a HP bar (you couldn't kill the player tho boooo)
  
• Fixed hive noises play when hive is sleeping
  
• Fixed focus mode not selectable on PC
  
• Fixed beebox preview is pink cube when no species
  
• Fixed bin text button off by 1px (it was annoying me)
  
• Fixed boat wake sprite slightly offset
  
• Fixed magazine tooltip not showing right-click to open
  
• Fixed backpacks not being able to be selected the first time they're opened (maybe they're just shy)
  
• Fixed that if you try and hammer the hallowed gate/altar you can’t then remove them once you unlock the axe
  
• Fixed dropped gate item is pink for a sec
  
• Fixed opening a menu object near the top of the window on PC opens the inventory twice
  
• Fixed Lost+Found giving you loads of noticeboard (why do you need that many)
  
• Fixed bottler always says "bottling Apicola"
  
• Fixed eebank scrolling buttons not active
  
• Fixed buzzing sound on errored hive
  
• Fixed hives with errors still charging honeycore machines
  
• Fixed backpacks not opening after saving
  
• Fixed Flower1 seed tooltip having the wrong name
  

• Fixed mods not loading if you save+quit and reload the same world with the same mods on
  
• Fixed mod icons not showing properly
  

Probably one of the most important creatures on Earth and now you'll be looking after them in APICO on May 20, 2022.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/save-the-bees-on-may-20-with-the-release-of-apico

• Added loads of bugs, probably lmao
  
• Added the Lost&Found box on Skipper's pier, which will hold any key items you somehow manage to lose! (new world only)
  
• Added some additional Linux libs to the game to prevent issues for some Linux users who didn't have these libs installed
  
• Added all language localisations for French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portugese, and Japanese
  
• Added a couple of "hat" hairstyles to try out!!! (can use the Dresser at Nan's house)
  
• Worldgen screen now has a fun bee icon that changes while u wait (what a treat)
  
• You can now specify which species you want a hint for from Beenjamin rather than him always telling you the hint for "next" bee you haven't discovered
  
• Updated controls image for when using a different brand controllers
  
• Remapping keys will now show in icons in the book, i.e. changing WSAD to ZQSD for AZERTY will show those controls in the guide instead of still showing WSAD
  
• Added an option in controls to quickly default to QWERTY or AZERTY controls (you can still customise keys after picking one)
  
• You can now view the bee book panel tooltips using LT/L2 and RT/R2 on gamepad
  
• Carpentry 101 GIF updated to show planks being sawn into sticks as well as logs > planks
  
• Player and NPCs now always have a white outline (like in Multiplayer
  
• You can now use B/O on gamepad to get out of the boat you are in to make it easier to escape your nautical nightmare
  
• Added visual buttons to show the above change when a boat is highlighted on gamepad
  
• You can now press R stick to quick queen on gamepad
  
• You can now use the right analogue stick to lock placement of tiles/walls in that direction on gamepad
  
• On PC you can now shift-click hotbar items into your inventory and vice-versa when only the inventory menu is open
  
• On Console/Gamepad you can now quick-move hotbar items into your inventory and vice-versa when only the inventory menu is open
  
• Increased text contrast on locked/complete chapters
  
• Increased book height to help with longer languages
  
• Magazine Rack no longer has fixed slot requirements to keep magazines ordered, do what you want you rascals
  
• Added a "high contrast slot" accessibility option
  
• Capped name input at 20 chars
  
• You can now place menu objects / machines on ice without needing pier tiles (technically it's solid so makes sense to add!)
  
• Made the sentence in the first quest that tells you ESC closes menus in blue to hopefully make it stand out and people remember, even though it's also shown in the corner when any menu is open :')
  
• Made a few other paragraphs in the quests highlighted to cover commonly missed things
  
• Blessed bees now have a coloured aura to make them easier to tell apart
  
• Gave the trait letters more contrast in the microscope menu + tooltips
  
• Wall placement is move forgiving with menu objects, i.e. you can now place walls on tiles next to Gates (before it was blocked)
  
• You can now hold Backspace in Signs, wow such quality updates right
  
• You can now hold mouse / gamepad A to buy multiple items from shops
  
• You can now place down stone on the ground back as rocks, what a treat
  
• Wax Canisters now explicitly state they are produced by Worker Bees
  
• Removed the "drowning" teleport because too many people report it as a bug - You can now hold "R" (or L2+R2 together on gamepads) for 5s to respawn back to your spawn point (either the pier or the last bed you slept on), as the deep water auto-teleportation has been removed
  
• The bed item tooltip + relevant quest ("Waiting Around") have been updated with this info too
  
• BroduxBlue is now Mothense in-game! (still the same cute fox!)

• Fixed Tapped tree health bar not reducing when chopped (still chopped down but HP just stayed the same)
  
• Fixed canisters not showing up in crate preview tooltips
  
• Fixed mead canisters showing as pink cubes in in crate preview tooltips
  
• Fixed Rehab released bees not showing with their cute lil heart
  
• Fixed book overview chapter text being 1px off
  
• Fixed Name screen showing characters pressed while on the home page, if any
  
• Fixed "New Discovery" text sometimes getting cut off
  
• Fixed not being able to use dpad for moving around slots + menus on gamepad
  
• Fixed the extremely important mead "shine" missing from infused meads
  
• Fixed not being able to see bee trait cards on gamepad
  
• Fixed target/move buttons being yeeted into the sun when starting the game in gamepad mode and switching to MKB
  
• Fixed missing space between NPC names and their pronouns
  
• Fixed crashing issue when clicking on quest notifications
  
• Fixed Infuser not starting infusing when you have input items added, empty tank, then add a canister to fill
  
• Fixed Magazine Rack not accepted any items