APICO News

Hi friends!

A month passed by since our last newsletter, here’s what’s been going on!

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We joined the Frog Con, an online convention for frog lovers that mixes educational panels with creative works, in the middle of the month. Mudborne was one of the froggy games and got played during the convention!

For the occasion, we shared more about the game on our socials, as well as some redesign work-in-progress sneak peeks!



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A fellow beekeeper created a checklist tracker & guide spreadsheet for APICO! It’s truly an amazing resource, and includes the Ocean Update (3.0) new content.



Thank you so much DeluxeGremlin for this!

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Fellow beekeeper Hazel shared this screenshot of her base in our community discord! Between the rainbow hive garden and the Mothense concert for the NPCs, it’s a dream place to bee. If you want to share you’re own cute pics you should come join us!



In other APICO news, the lovely Chelsea, that you may know as myPotatoGames on Twitter, wrote a very wholesome review of our beekeeping sim! It’s always heartwarming to hear such nice feedback
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Last month, our discord bot beebot started sharing a beemoji mashup everyday, and that gave us an idea: what if you could make your own mashup, and beebot could send it to the server?



You can now submit your mashup by filling this form, and it’ll get added to the bot’s daily posts! :D

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That’s it for this month’s recap! Thanks for sticking with us and keeping these hives buzzing, it’s been a quiet month but we have some exciting stuff coming next time!

Take care!
Manon, Ell and Jamie

Hey Beekeepers!

Couple more bug fixes including a bunch of minor stuff I was putting aside in favour of more breaking issues!
Thanks again as always to all your reports
~ Ell

[hr][/hr][h3]Changes[/h3]

• You no longer get sent back to your spawn after the credits, and remain in front of the (now open) door (could this be a setup for the 4.0 update I wonder)
  
• Updated steam cloud mapping, should now sync the saves+modsfolders between all OSs properly
  

[hr][/hr][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed SteamDeck not using the full height of the screen
  
• Fixed new bee produce being disgustingly undervalued by those ungrateful NPCs (x10 sell price)
  
• Fixed the new idol not being able to be used in the dream shrine
  
• Fixed the beehive breeding slot not being fully hidden when a queen was inside
  
• Fixed Filtration Hives filling sludge filters when not underwater
  
• Fixed lag on beebox/buttbox/beebank with lots of friends inside
  
• Fixed Filtration Hives filling sludge filters when no sludge tiles were nearby
  
• Fixed some NPCs getting ahead of themselves and congratulating you on finding all bees/butts early
  
• Fixed some rogue {PLAYER.NAME}s showing in dialogue instead of your own beeautiful name
  
• Fixed not being able to pick up flora with most tools (exception being nets on flowers for obvs reasons)
  
• Fixed being able to set your spawn point with a bed underwater or in caves
  
• Fixed being able to use the rubbering in the dev/dream areas
  
• Fixed coral species not generated hives when fully restored
  
• Fixed fishing then using a gate or divespot causing a weird ghost fishing menu
  
• Fixed not being able to dive back down a spot on gamepad when no shallow/boat nearvy
  
• Fixed heater/cooler icons overlapping with the moon icon in the top-left
  
• Fixed corrupted players.json files causing issues on start-up
  
• Fixed Shipsbane showing "thorny" butterfly as the req when it's "stippled"
  
• Fixed some fishing achievements being locked+relocked when changing between saves
  
• Fixed not being able to open non-beehives with a hivetool equipped
  
• Fixed being able to use the pencil on a backpack
  
• Fixed coral restoration not immedietely being detected in some situations
  
• Fixed coral that was pincered not counting as needing to be restored in that session
  
• Fixed Golden fishing rod having no tooltip info
  
• Fixed TDRAW hook being broken with modding
  

Hi friends!

September is already gone and oh boy, what a month! APICO’s second major update came out - “What Lies Beeneath” :D

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What Lies Beeneath launched on September 26 on PC! Beekeepers can now explore the ocean, restore coral reefs, clean the seabed, fish… and, of course, discover all the new bees (including underwater ones!!). You can check out the patch notes here to see all the new stuff added.

If you’re a console player, no worries! The update will eventually come to you, and we’ll make sure to let you all know when it happens
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To celebrate the new update, APICO and its amazing soundtracks (I’m not the one who composed it so I can say it) are currently on sale on Steam!

The game is 45% off, and the soundtracks are each 50% off until October 10th ✨

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We experimented a bit with the discord server this month: after a short career in sending cute bee pics, beebot switched to beemojis creation. Some are cuter than others, but it’s a little surprise everyday!

We’ve also been very happy to see the players enjoy the update and sharing tips (and bugs) in the server, feel free to stop by!
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In October, we’ll join Frog Con, a lovely online convention for frog lovers that raises funds for amphibian conservation. In the middle or froggy cams, the artist alley and educational streams, Mudborne will take part to the con as a froggy game, October 13-23

Be sure to check it out, along with the other amazing froggy games we’ll be alongside!

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And that’s a wrap for September! We wish you all a good spooky month!

Take care,
Manon, Ell & Jamie

Hey Beekeepers!

Some more bug fixes and a couple a tweaks, hopefully this should be all of the major stuff sorted out!
I’ll still be doing patches but less frequently now as things have got more stable (especially after the influx of new bees, welcome all!!)

If you’ve been enjoying the new content and want to see more don’t forget to leave a nice review for the game!
There’s still one last big free content update to come next year - if you’re interested in knowing more you can check out the roadmap here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1390190/discussions/0/3414305314950533292/

~ Ell

[h3]General[/h3]

• Added a check to make sure frosty/fiery beehives get spawned properly
  
• Changed solitary bee item tooltip to show the beehotel/habitat rather than beehive/hive
  
• You can now hammer glitched beehives (especially ones that rudely spawn in your beeautiful base)
  
• Removed "hydrophobic" from prismatic bee's hint as it caused confusion (myself included)
  

[hr][/hr][h3]Crash Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed selling to Bobbee with JP or CN language set crashing
  

[hr][/hr][h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed being able to use the shovel underwater
  
• Fixed coral tanks not being able to go back down to 0% salinity
  
• Fixed butterfly hotels not picking up nearby algae/kelp preventing sunken admiral usage
  
• Fixed the beebank being a bit wonky in multiplayer
  
• Fixed butterfly box setting lifespan to 0 when removed. You can put 0 lifespan butts back in buttbox if you want to reset the lifespan back
  
• Fixed shell scaffold in calcified bee entry always showing as discovered
  
• Fixed coral tanks not being able to go down to 0% salinity
  
• Fixed bug hotels in the caves saying the native flora used was wrong
  
• Fixed prismatic bee magazine showing "$magazine_prismatic_b" instead of the second paragraph
  
• Fixed cultivator bee entry in book crashing once you'd discovered Honeyed Root
  
• Fixed sea cauliflower not applying the +2 lifespan
  
• Fixed tidewort not applying the +2 stability
  
• Fixed honey visual on hives not disappearing after using a hivetool
  
• Fixed tooltip for kelp + algae flora items being the wrong way round and saying they come from shrubs
  
• Fixed walking near the hivemother's door after opening it retriggering the opening sequence
  
• Fixed being able to move stuff into an invisible backpack/trash slot on steamdeck when opening another menu
  
• Fixed being able to see the quick queen button on steamdeck (you just use the r-stick control as displayed to QQ on gamepad)
  
• Fixed butterfly box UI going weird when removing butterflies on steamdeck/gamepad
  

Hey Beekeepers!

Continuing to crush these (not nice) bugs as they come in, keep 'em coming >:)
The game goes on sale today at some point for a whole week (valve are being all cool and mysterious and won't tell me what time), so if you've been waiting to grab the game at a nice discount you won't have to wait much longer!

~ Ell

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed adding/removing bees to a beebox/beebank not syncing up in multiplayer
  
• Fixed buttboxes just not working at all in multiplayer
  
• Fixed buttbox layout for large numbers of butts
  
• Fixed rehabeelitator not working generally after restoring any of the underwater bees
  
• Fixed queen lifespan not counting down in a certain golden location
  
• Fixed Captain just giving away striped walls until he went out of business
  
• Fixed ocean butterflies not showing a tooltip when highlighting the right panel in the book
  
• Fixed kelp/algae not showing their discovered sprites for sunken admiral page
  
• Fixed degrumpifyer drones not potentially passing that onto the queen they make
  
• Fixed degrumpifyer not using up honey
  
• Fixed Beenjamin's hints being for the wrong species in the later tiers
  
• Fixed some of the hotbar bee icons being offset slightly
  
• Fixed habitats not working for coral/underwater bees
  
• Fixed habitats not showing correct environment sprites for the new species
  
• Fixed conditions for Crystalfin being wrong