Card Survival: Tropical Island News

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all well!
We thought it would be a good idea to post some patch notes to let you all know what has been fixed and added since the Halloween update and to give you some news on the things to come. :)



[h2]Chinese Translations:[/h2]
The Chinese version of Card Survival has been progressing very nicely thanks to the great work of all our volunteers. We believe that with some luck we should be able to release a special Chinese Beta Branch after the end of next week so that our Chinese players can start enjoying the game in their language earlier while helping us iron out any issues with the localizations.
We are learning a lot with this process so hopefully this will also help us with future translations into other languages.

[h2]Update 39:[/h2]
We would like to let you know that we will be releasing a new update at the end of the month. It's not going to have a specific theme but will instead introduce many new blueprints to enrich the mid and late game as well as improvements to many of our existing systems and more.

[h2]Update 40:[/h2]
We are planning on releasing a big performance update around the end of the year that should hopefully get rid of those long loading times when moving to environments that have many items.
Thank you all very much for you patience with this! We wish we could have dealt with this earlier, but unfortunately it is a very complex issue that requires us to rewrite some important game systems which was something we just couldn't afford to do before.


And now let's go to the patch notes:

[h2]Minor New Features and Tweaks:[/h2]
+ Added Mermaid Achievement.
+ Improved Baby, it now cries when hungry, has a new play action and gives entertainment as well.
+ Blueprints for Cellars, Cisterns and well now also give dirt upon finishing them.
+ You can now see your chances of retreating successfully.
+ You can now use coconut shells as fuel.
+ Kava can now be dried in the stove too.

[h2]Fixes:[/h2]
- Fixed a bug that was allowing you to do equip both bug resistant and bug attractant perks at once.
- Added some missing elements to the filter lists.
- Some plates with chillies now give you capsaicin too.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing macaques from raiding people.
- Fixed an issue that was making characters with the carnivore perk throw up when drinking goat milk.
- Fixed an issue that was stopping players from crafting cooking recipes that used fat.
- Fixed a bug that was causing storms to reach enclosures in non-coastal environments in certain cases.
- Removed a debug feature that was left in raft shark visitors.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing one of the mermaids objectives from being visible.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the straw cape to drop plastic sheet when running out of durability.
- Fixed a bug that would break the main menu after Save and Quitting a run
- Fixed that bug with scrap axes not destroying themselves when you broke them.
- Tweaked success labels.
- Stove Comfort stats no longer stack.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing seahounds to appear too early.
- Fixed a bug that was causing land sickness in instanced environments.
- Chances of finding sharks now increase if you are wounded or have fish or meat in your inventory.
- Reduced the amount of energy seahound parasites consume.
- Scrap Shovels and Axes can now be manually broken for some of their parts.
- Added new guide entries.
- Tweaked seahound population.
- Feeding Coconut Shells to a fire now has a confirmation popup.
- Fixed a bug that was causing monitor lizards to appear too early.
- Tweak Seahound fight values.
- Disabled a feature that was causing fps drops.
- Fixed an issue where seahound parasites would cause permanent land sickness if you never returned to coastal areas.
- Fixed an issue that was causing boars to get trapped in locations outside of their normal range.
- Fixed a bug that was making fish traps not work properly in the desolate beach.
- Fixed a bug that would cause water to stop boiling while on a fire.
- Fixed an issue that was causing a duplicate nap button to appear on the mermaid nest.
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to salt Seahounds into fish. 
- Fixed an issue that was causing the raincoat to not return its plastic sheet after dismantling it.
- Tweaks to Seahound Parasites.
- Fixed some issues with feeding the baby.
- Fixed a bug that was stopping you from spreading honey on flatbread.

That's all for now.
Until the next time! :)

Hello everyone!

I hope you're all well, it's time for Update 38, the Halloween update.
Let's go straight to our list of content:


[h2]Mermaid:[/h2]

A new improved Mermaid is now available as the 4th official character.
She is a "desperate" character that should provide some challenge to veteran players, as it is one difficulty level higher than the tourist.
While the mermaid is able to see in the dark and drink salt water, the fact that her skin cracks easily when out of the water and gets severely damaged by sunlight makes her a difficult character to play. As if this wasn't enough, she is also pregnant with a child, starts in the dangerous Desolate Beach and is being actively hunted by sea monsters.





[h2]New Perks:[/h2]

We've added some new perks that where related to the mermaid and an additional horror one for halloween. Here's the list:

[h3]Main Perks:[/h3]


Alien Lifeform:
Shortly after starting your island adventure an asteroid will fall from the sky. You will then notice something growing from the crater. Something that smells good and appears to be edible...
Smells great, strangely tasty, very nutritious and easy to grow. What could go wrong!?

Seahounds:
Horrible sea monsters obsessed with eating mermaid flesh (or human if no mermaid is available). They will hunt the coastal areas of the island and can inject you with parasites if they manage to sting you. Their parasites will grow inside your body if left unchecked and alter your mind to make you want to stay close to the sea so that the seahounds can finish their job.

Pregnancy:
This perk will cause your character to start pregnant. Pregnancy will give you nausea during its first stages, increase your hunger and calorie needs afterwards, and finally make it harder for you to walk. After 3 months you will then be able to give birth to a little baby!

[h3]Additional Perks:[/h3]

- Feral: Become immune to the effects of discomfort. Perfect for cave living.
- Hypermetabolism: Burn energy very fast and have a higher body temperature.
- Land Sickness: Your character will get nauseous when far from the sea.



[h2]Localisations:[/h2]

On an unrelated note, we also wanted to let you know that we're almost done with our localisations system! So we're going to be contacting all the volunteers that wrote us over the following days so we can start with translations as soon as possible!
If you are interested in helping us translate Card Survival to your language, write us an email at [email protected] and we'll add you to our contact list. ;)

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all off our Chinese players for all the support they've been giving our game since our recent release. Seeing how well the game has been received by you has been a very nice surprise for us.
We have included a new cooking recipe that had been suggested by your community, Drunken Crab, as a way to thank you. :)
Hopefully we'll be able to get Card Survival in Chinese very soon!


[h2]Minor Changes and New Features:[/h2]
- Added a new Straw Cape that serves as less effective alternative to the raincoat.
- Some plants (including bark) can now be dried in the smoker.
- Added a new Drunken Crab recipe (made with alcohol, crabs and ginger).
- Most skill perks now have a stronger effect on the difficulty score.
- Gluttonous and Inappetent perks now have effects on food saturation.
- Snake Grass now also grows in the Mangroves.
- Mud Deposits are now more common in the Mangroves.
- Small game traps can now be destroyed by storms.
- Bone Knife has more durability now.
- Island Chicken no longer needs salt.
- Made official character portraits available to everyone.



[h2]Bug Fixes since the last Patch Note:[/h2]

- Fixed the Speedrun achievement triggering even past the 60 days mark
- Added some redundancy so that achievements that you completed offline get unlocked on Steam once you are back online
- Fixed a bug that was stopping the honey blueprint from producing honey.
- Fixed "only available in full version" text showing up in some places
- Fixed a stone image showing in blueprint ingredient slots that don't need a stone
- Fixed an issue that was preventing a tourist objective from being completed.
- Fixed an issue where eating butter or fat directly would still use spoilage.
- Corrected the fertilizer icon for mushroom beds.
- Fixed a bug that would show the water reservoir adding to bug population even when you put oil in the water
- Yam Jam now also uses portions instead of durability, just like Fat and Butter.
- Fixed a bug with Honey Candy that would duplicate cooking pots
- Fixed some typos in the guide
- Fixed an issue with the Island Gourmet achievement.
- Fixed an issue where honey glazed pork was giving the wrong saturation type.
- Fixed a bug that was causing rafts to move slower after stopping at an atoll.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the honey candy recipe to use no honey.
- Alembics will now fill any type of containers when making aqua fortis.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the flare to show 200% durability.
- Fixed some issues where the Bird Rock and the Desolate Beach were showing the wrong names in saves.
- Fixed a bug that caused dynamite to kill a lot more fish that it was supposed to when used in certain areas of the island.



That's all for now.
Happy halloween everyone and see you for the next update!!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well.
Just a small announcement here to let you know of all the things that have been added and fixed since the last patch note.
Also, just so you know, achievements are now live. :)

Almost forgot to tell you. But this week we'll be a bit less available as we're going to be taking our first week off in more than a year! For this reason I won't be able to answer as many comments as usual as I will be visiting some family and won't have that much access to a computer, but I will be reading everything as usual and will try to catch up when I'm back if I can.





[h2]Minor New Features and Tweaks:[/h2]

+ Added an option to toggle vsync.
+ Added Game Achievements.
+ You can now use oil on reservoirs to help neutralise the effect these structures have on bug population.
+ You can now build simpler temporary fires that don't require stones.
+ Cellars, Enclosures, Sheds, Mud Huts and Stone Huts can now be renamed.
+ The filling icon now also appears for containers inside the Nipa Palms, Alembics and other similar things.
+ Butter, Fat and Oil no longer lose durability when used on blueprints.
+ Goats now provide a bonus against loneliness when you spend time with them (in addition to what you can get from petting them).
+ Darkness now has a lower effect on wakefulness and mental structure.
+ Irrigation now feeds more water to Rice Paddies.
+ Increased Seaweed Satiation.
+ Making mud costs only a minitick now.
+ Sealed Containers can now be used to collect liquids from Banana Stumps and Nipa Palms.
+ Alembics, Water Filters and Solar Stills now also work with sealed containers.
+ Water rations can no longer be directly used to clean wounds but can now be transferred to other containers.
- Digging Mud from puddles no longer requires light.
+ Added some new icons.
+ More Guide Entries added!



[h2]Fixes [/h2]

- Fixed a bug where the simple fire would give you stones when dismantled while burning.
- Fixed an issue where triggered traps would destroy their contents when dismantled.
- Mixing fine dirt with water now takes less time.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing you from storing perforated coconuts and coconut halves in clay pot coolers.
- Fixed a bug that was causing puddles to filled with safe water.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing you from storing coconut shells inside container bags.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing you to build cellars in some coastal locations.
- Text corrections and improvements.
- Fixed a remaining issue that was still unlocking perks on some saves.
- Forges now give you back some dirt when demolished.
- Fixed a bug that was returning you your dynamite after blowing up the macaque den.
- Perforated coconuts now refill with rain like other sealed containers.
- You can now give Macaques water from Perforated coconuts.
- Fixed a bug that was causing stack actions not to work on some cases.
- Changed some texts on the custom journal to make it clearer.
- Papers can now be lit on fire with embers.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing candles from being lit by other candles.
- Fixed one remaining bug with stitched lacerations.
- Fixed a bug when lighting bee smokers with lit tinder.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing banana stumps from helping accelerate the tanning process of skins.
- Fixed the bug that unlocked all perks and re-locked all the perks that were unlocked by it.
- Fixed a bug that was causing tied juvenile goats to give adult carcasses when they died.
- Added more food items to the filters.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing you to teleport back to the island from the atoll.
- Wounds now show their effects to appetite.
- Fixed a bug that caused China Rose to permanently improve your immune system.
- Fixed a bug that would allow you to never sleep again if you collapsed from exhaustion and vomited immediately after.
- Added some missing items to some filters.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing you to collect rain water from the cave system.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the filling with water text to appear on the waiting screen.
- Fixed a bug that was causing empty bee skeps to play the bee sound constantly.


That's all for now.
See you on the next announcement!

Hello everyone!!

[h2]Free Card Survival:[/h2]

Today we are happy to announce that "Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days" is finally live on steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147680/Card_Survival_Tropical_Island__The_First_Days/

This is a free experience that covers the first 7 days of Card Survival, letting you play with the Hunter character or a pre-made custom one.

This won't change much for the people that already have the game but should give everyone else a chance to try Card Survival without having to buy it first.

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[h2]GDWC:[/h2]

On another note, it's a new month and we figured it might be a good idea to remind you all about the Game Development World Championship that Card Survival is participating in.
If you a have a moment and wan't to visit our Game's page and leave it a like that could really help us. :)
No need to create an account or anything, just a couple of clicks!

https://thegdwc.com/games/98d247eb-a40f-42fb-afe6-de490c598389


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That is all for now.
See you for the next announcement!


P.S.: Achievements should be coming later this week. :)

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all very well!
No that we are no longer releasing updates as frequently as before we figured it would be a good idea to start posting patch notes so you can find out about any new features we might have added or bugs we might have fixed.
So, let's take a look at all the things that have changed since release!



[h2]Minor New Features:[/h2]

- Puddles will now only convert any safe water added to them into unsafe water.
- You can no longer pour salt water or other liquids into puddles.
- Sealed containers now fill over time just like open ones.
- Containers that are being filled with rain now display so with an icon and with a text in their description window.
- Drinking now takes a minitick.
- Bee Skeps can now be crafted without bees and moved around, and then placed with a new blueprint once bees are acquired.
- Woven backpacks can now be dismantled to get the rope and basket back.
- Woven Backpacks can now be made by dragging ropes into baskets.
- Important improvements to the Rain, Sun and Bug systems.
- New Rain Start Perk added.
- New Perk Survival Trunk 2000 (really a modified version of the old supply trunk).
- You can now make honey water with honey too, not just with honeycombs.
- Changed Seafood Cup blueprint to make it simpler.
- Honey and honeywater can now be applied to wounds.
- Perforated Coconuts now show their spoilage level.
- Dry and Empty crop plots can no longer be infected by mites or fungus.
- You can now boil large amounts of rice at once.
- You can now carve holes on wood with embers and craft stone axes by dragging a sharpened stone in the resulting hole, just as it used to be before.
- Cinchona trees can now also be found in the jungle.
- Ropes can now be carried with you on shoulder slots.
- Stones can now be sharpened against small stones, but it takes longer.
- Combination interactions that have redundant blueprints now unlock them when used.
- Re-enabled hitting coconuts with stones.


[h2]Fixes:[/h2]

- Fixed an issue that was stopping rain from lowering bug population.
- Fixed some issues with the Diarrhoea, Rice Effect and some other stats not visualizing properly.
- Trees no longer heal from cuts as that was messing with the tree-cutting process.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing you from gaining distance from the hunter when swimming to and from the Bird Rock.
- Fixed a bug where things that were dragged out of shelter after a storm could still be affected by the storm damage when you leave a safe environment.
- Fixed a bug that would stop lung damage from killing you.
- Fixed a bug that was causing burnt mortar to give too much quicklime when ground.
- Fixed a bug that was causing Stiched lacerations to bleed.
- Fixed a bug with the Survival Trunk that was causing placement problems.
- Fixed an issue with the crashed plane and bugs.
- Weston can no longer be blown away by storm winds.
- Fixed a bug where some available blueprints would need to be researched again after loading a save.
- Fixed a bug that was making the drying rack not work properly.
- Fixed a bug where nested inventories would lose their content when their containers were dragged into another environment.
- Some fixes to perk prices.
- Minor fixes to the character journals.
- Items can now be dragged between cave system chambers whenever possible.
- Fixed some bugs with honeywater and sugarwater fermentation.
- Fixed a bug that was causing players not to wake up when too cold, putting them at risk of death from hypothermia.
- Fixed a bug that was causing roofs to collapse (and this time for real!).
- Difficulty adjustment to starting location perks.
- Fixed a bug with risk estimation when climbing palm trees.
- Fixed a bug that was causing storms to be able to affect you in stone huts.
- Lizard Fry was incorrectly marked as a vegetarian dish, this has been fixed.
- Tweaks to stat screens.
- Fixed bug that was causing tide pools to smell bad even when you were in a different environment.


That is all for now. Take care and see you next time!