Loddlenaut News

• A mysterious gift box has appeared in the waters of GUP-14! Who left it there? What does it contain?! You’ll need to explore the eastern parts of the ocean to find this yule-tide treasure…
  
• This gift box (and the item it contains) will only be available from December 18th to January 4th, so be sure to find it while you can!
  

• Added an extra column of slots to the inventory, increasing the number of inventory slots from 16 to 20.
  
• Added a 60-minute period of “biome protection” that is triggered whenever a biome is 100% cleaned. During this period, no goop or litter will respawn in that biome.
  
• When the final biome is 100% cleaned, there is a “global protection” period that starts and prevents goop from respawning in all biomes. The duration of this protection period has been extended from 20 minutes to 60 minutes. It now also prevents litter from respawning during this period.
  
• Loddles with the cleaning ability can now clear the goop off of nearby goopy loddles. The same goes for Purifier Bombs and Water Purifier stations.
  
• Added tutorial messages for using the Scrap Vac and the Puddle Scrubber.
  
• Added a controls prompt that displays whenever a structure is highlighted in the hotbar.
  
• The Scrap Vac is now made available to order at the Shipping Station after entering Tangle Bay for the first time. The previous trigger for this unlock (entering a cloud of microplastics) is still active.
  
• Shortened the delay before auto-deposit kicks in when holding a piece of litter in front of a Recycle Bot and increased the auto-deposit drop rate.
  
• Changed color of goop particles below Puddle Scrubber to more closely match the color of the goop puddles.
  
• Increased the text size of Options menu dropdown lists, Shipping Station flavor text, inventory item labels, and glyphs for LB / RB and LT / RT.
  
• Improved visibility of “100% clean” text in the World Map.
  

• Fixed an issue that caused dropped items to ignore collision with terrain.
  
• Fixed an issue with Siren Form loddles having increased ability range and a shortened ability activation interval.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing the player and spaceship map icons to have slightly inaccurate positions, which was making it difficult to clear the top-right map segment.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing the screen to stay dark when opening the World Map immediately after fast traveling.
  
• Fixed an issue with Light Beacons disabling their lights when the player got too close to them.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Pause button detecting input while the Equipment Menu was open. Pressing the Pause button while in the Equipment Menu will now close the Equipment Menu.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Inventory and Scanner buttons detecting input during the ending cutscene.
  
• Fixed an issue with the "Feed a loddle" objective getting completed before it has been unlocked.
  
• Fixed an issue with new objectives not getting properly saved if they were unlocked immediately after a fast travel, which would occur when fast traveling out of a biome that was just 100% cleaned for the first time.
  
• Adjusted the targeting animation to result in fewer instances of the arm bending behind the player’s back when targeting an item immediately after boosting.
  
• Mac - Fixed an issue with an Escape character being added to loddle names when renaming loddles via keyboard input.
  

• Fixed an issue the "Feed a loddle" objective not completing if a loddle had already eaten food before the objective was unlocked.
  

• Reduced global goop respawn chance by 35%.
  
• Reduced global litter respawn chance by 60%.
  
• Litter and goop will now only respawn inside of biomes.
  
• Increased boost speed multiplier by 10%.
  
• Increased the duration of the default and upgraded boost.
  
• Reduced the boost meter recharge delay.
  
• Increased boost meter regeneration speed.
  
• Increased default Scrap Vac capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 microplastics.
  
• Increased upgraded Scrap Vac capacity from 15,000 to 30,000 microplastics.
  
• Increased Scrap Vac deposit speed.
  
• Increased brightness of all glowing effects on the Scrap Vac to make the capacity meter more noticeable.
  
• Loddles will now seek out fruit growing from plants when they’re hungry. Previously, this food-seeking behavior only triggered once they became starving.
  

• Fixed an issue that allowed the Storage, Fast Travel, Shipping, and Crafting Menus to be opened while in structure placement mode.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused following loddles to not remove themselves from the “following player” list when they were released into the open ocean, which was eventually resulting in no new loddles being able to follow you.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Equipment Menu being opened on top of the World Map menu if the two buttons were pressed on the same frame.
  
• Added additional targeting logic to detect when an item has somehow become lodged inside of a wall or other collider. Those items will now be targetable and collectable.
  
• Fixed an issue with favorite fruits not giving loddles an extra boost of happiness.
  
• Fixed an issue with Puffer Form loddles having increased ability range and a shortened ability activation interval.
  

Loddlenaut instantly caught my eye, and it was with good reason. The new indie game from Moon Lagoon and Secret Mode is oh so adorable, featuring a unique premise that sees you care for an alien planet's ocean and raise adorable underwater creatures called loddles (yes, these guys are literally extraterrestrial axolotls and I'm so here for it). If you love all things cozy like I do, then you're in for a treat: Loddlenaut has just dropped.

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