[Neolithic]To the End News

Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

The Halloween of this year will soon be here.
Thus, I got a breakdown for this year's Halloween content.
Please check the details here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1519140/view/3379414465902158880

As a game about supernature and secret societies, it's certainly something we shall celebrate. Thus, the game will also be on sale from Oct.24th to Nov.2nd (+/- 1 day depending on your time zone.) This is the first discount after our previous price increase when the first chapter of the main story concluded in Queensmouth. Following Halloween, it seems we are also not too far away from some other festivals.
Thus, I will list all the discount dates the game will have till the end of this year here.
They are:
Halloween Sale starts on Oct.24th
Thanksgiving Sale starts at the same time as the Steam Autumn Sale.
An ancient NEOLITHIC festival and the game's Steam release anniversary starts on Dec. 4th
Christmas starts at the same time as the Steam Winter Sale.

Even with the ongoing war, COVID, inflation, and the energy/food crisis, it's likely humanity will survive this another year. So do the game's updates. :)

Other than the Halloween-related content, I am also still working on the Egypt part of the game. The teahouse got a second floor, and it now also has random adventurers come to visit. There are also more infrastructures in the building such as the smelter and pet service. Outside this seemly safe haven, the Aten Cultists now drop better loot, including the spellbook of the fireball.

Meanwhile, real life never stops to amuse me. Thus, I put such things right into the game.

Who knows if it has anything to do with the stones that bring misfortune? :)

So, that's for this week. Hopefully, everyone can have fun in the upcoming spooky week and stay alive. :)

Hi, everyone, this is a special breakdown announcement of all the Halloween content added to the game in recent weeks. (It's not a DLC release. But, apparently, Steam's announcement system does not have a category for permanent additional content for Halloween events.)

Last year, the Halloween content was limited to the haunted 2nd floor of Ardham Hotel with ghosts and Halloween-themed items, revealing a tragic attempt to contain a certain threat in town.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1519140/announcements/detail/3090025847761183583

This year, we got a lot more content for Halloween.
Let's start with the video footage of Incident UPEI0633-2022-A, you can find it on a computer in the research sector of Site Demeter.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Oh, well, the Foundation screwed up something once again. :D
After all, they are not the much more famous SCP Foundation in another universe. Even if they are, those characters certainly means:
Secure
Containment-breaches
Pull-it-off.

OK, enough for the Foundation jokes. Here is a fun fact, the video is censored in China in real life. When the video is censored, you know you did something right regarding Halloween. It's meant to be scary.

The document about the curse stones also mentioned a small-scale conflict between the Foundation and the mainland China branch of the Dragon. Thus, censorship is expected. But, I don't think the Foundation doesn't have anything to penetrate the Great Firewall. So, here we go:
https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256911741/movie_max_vp9.webm?t=1666191317
It's the same video. But, it's accessible behind the Wall.

Now comes the question, why do we specifically mention this incident?
Well, Steam tells me that we need a Halloween Event.
OK, OK, that's nothing to do with Steam.
The truth is...
Well, we know the curse stones from 2004 just arrived a few updates ago. We know we have some Pumpkin Men on the run in the research labs of the Foundation.

Yes, those guys.

So, here comes the story about their origin, where they came from.
You can find video footage and documents about what went wrong in an already doomed Foundation facility.

They are a new type of enemy in the game. But you can also capture them and turn them into pets.

What makes things more fun is, they are technically still plants, they grow from seeds. The special seeds are cursed by the curse stones, just as mentioned in the video. Thus, right near the computer where you can find the footage, you will also find the recipe about how to create such seeds. By combining your 3D-printing skills and your gardening skills, you can make those Pumpkin Men appear outside the labs of the Foundation. After all, it's time for Halloween.

Alongside the supernature part of the game, we also got normal pumpkins that can grow from their seeds added a few weeks ago. You can carve them into decorations, cook meals, and make pumpkin juice from them. What can go wrong with just that? :)

Anyway, Happy Halloween! Sometimes, I wonder whether the world in this game or real life is crazier. :)

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[3D Printing]Added new blueprint: Cursed Pumpkin Seed.
[Gardening]You can now plant Cursed Pumpkin Seed to get even more Pumpkin Men outside the Foundation's lab. (They all grow into Pumpkin Men right now. But they may grow into something more horrible in the future.)
[Site Demeter]Added a copy of Cursed Pumpkin Seed Recipe near the computer that has the footage of Incident UPEI0633-2022-A.
The wiki pages have been updated accordingly.
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Added code support to allow seeds to grow into something abnormal.
3D printing UI shall now display the number of a potentially dynamic generated material correctly if it does not yet exist. (It sounds like a paradox. :P)
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【3D打印】加入了新的蓝图：被诅咒的南瓜种子。
【种植】你现在可以种下被诅咒的南瓜种子让它们生长成南瓜人从而扩散到基金会的实验室以外的区域。（当前他们都会生长成南瓜人。不过以后可能会加入更可怕的变体。）
【德米特基地】在包含事故UPEI0633-2022-A的录像的电脑旁边加入了一份被诅咒的南瓜种子的配方。
维基页面已经进行了相应更新。
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加入了允许种子生长成某些异常物体的代码支持。
3D打印界面现在会正确显示一个在游戏过程中可能动态生成但是当前不存在的原料。（听起来像是一个悖论。:P）

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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[Site Demeter]Added a video record (cut scene) in the research sector which may fill in the story about why there are pumpkin men in this area.
[Site Demeter]Added the transcripts of the video record.
[Gallery of Memories]Added the selection of Foundation.
[Gallery of Memories]Added the cut scene of Incident UPEI0633-2022-A
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【德米特基地】在研究区域加入了一段录像记录（过场动画）可能可以在故事上说明为什么这里有南瓜人。
【德米特基地】加入了录像记录的文字转录文本。
【记忆的画廊】加入了基金会的选项。
【记忆的画廊】加入了事故UPEI0633-2022-A的动画。

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[Site Demeter]New Enemy: Some Pumpkin Men now appear in the research sector. (The same room with the document of UPEI0633 )
[Pumpkin Men]Pumpkin Men can be captured and turned into pets. (Please check the wiki page to discover their special attributions: https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Pets )
[Pumpkin Men]Added an item drop list for Pumpkin Men. (They mostly drop pumpkin seeds. But, there is also something else.)
[Art Assets]Improved the demon skill icon with some interesting AI-based technology. (Just an experiment)
[Pet]Newly captured pets now always have the max amount of sanity.
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Removed a debug popup in a character's special attribution menu.
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【德米特基地】新的的敌人：一些南瓜人现在会在基地的实验区出现。（和UPEI0633的文档在同一个区域）
【南瓜人】南瓜人可以被捕获并成为宠物。（维基页面已经更新并记录了该生物的特殊属性：https://neolithia.fandom.com/wiki/Pets）
【南瓜人】加入了南瓜人的物品掉落列表。（较大概率是掉落南瓜种子。但是还有一些别的东西。）
【艺术资源】优化了恶魔技能的图标，基于某些有趣的AI技术。（这只是个实验。）
【宠物】新捕捉到的宠物现在会在被捕捉到的时候有最大的San值。
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干掉了一个用于Debug的在角色特殊属性界面的弹窗