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[Game Update] Hamlet - 309027

Balance/New features
  • Wormwood has an extra (short) anim when poop healing.
  • Compost Wrap heals Wormwood for more now.
  • Each world type (DS/ROG/SW/HAM) now has its own set of worldgen presets (to prevent incompatible presets from being applied)
Bug Fixes
  • Werewilba won’t be groggy in the humid season from her body hair anymore.
  • Werewilba can now eat food by selecting it and clicking on Wilba with it
  • Thunderbirds shouldn't unfairly target players anymore and ignore lightning rods at times.
  • Uncatchable Glowflies fixed.
  • Fix for the disappearing trawlnet (when full) in Shipwrecked
  • Werewilba’s health gets properly set on load
  • Werewilba can now Spelunk caves in Vanilla and RoG
  • Wilba no longer turns into Werewilba when removing the Silver Necklace after a full moon
  • Drying racks that burn will produced cooked versions of their item if they can cook, otherwise they will spawn a burning version of the item if they can burn.
  • Walking sticks and stalks can burn now.
  • Hammered dry racks will drop their item.
  • It should not be possible anymore to generate a world without seasons.
  • Wormwoods planted seeds will continue to grow after a load.
  • Werewilba’s light won’t go out when she’s struck by lightning now.
  • Falling things should not stay on top of a ruins fountain now.
  • Cleaned up some decoration conflicts with pig ruins generation.

[Game Update] Hamlet Character Update - 307715


The Character Update is now live! This update focuses on making our new Hamlet characters more interesting for you to play, particularly when playing outside of the Hamlet world.

Wilba has inherited one of her father's more colourful characteristics, namely, she now carries the same curse that inflicts all of her father's family with dreaded werepigism. Also, all of pigkind from Hamlet's town pigs to those of ROG will now recognize her as the king's daughter, and pay her tribute in the form of gifts.

We weren't very happy with how Warbucks was working out. While trying to find ways to make him work, we decided that he just wasn't as interesting as we would like, and so we've made the decision to start from scratch with a new character. You can still continue your Warbucks saves as his files will not be removed from the game, but he will no longer be in the official lineup of starting characters.

Instead, we would like to introduce to you our new character, Wormwood! Who knows where this creature of nature came from, but he'll likely grow on you.

Thank you for playing, and we look forward to hearing your feedback!


New features
  • Added options for disabling the decorative vines and the canopy shadow in Hamlet for lower-end hardware.
  • Blooming Rainforest trees will drop burrs when chopped
Bug Fixes
  • Webber's disguise will show up if put on the ground now.
  • Fixed random startup crash with blueprints in Hamlet compatible worlds.
  • Fixed assert when trying to launch the game with The Screecher mod enabled.
  • Lazy Forager doesn’t collect items off shelves anymore. Affected saves should be fixed
  • Bundling wrap now works with controller.
  • Zoomed inventory management (with controller) should now behave properly with shelves.
  • Fixed "Text not found" in recipe popups when not near needed prototyping machine.
  • Fixed an assert on load of some Hamlet compatible ShipWrecked worlds.
  • Burned crops just produce burnt seeds unless fully mature
Hotfix - 307799
  • Stopped rare pig relics from moving around during a load
  • Fixed broken interaction with items on shelves.
  • Fixed graphical positioning of items when taken off shelves
Hotfix - 307940
  • Fixed two "random" crashes ( scheduler.lua and shelf_slot.lua)
Hotfix -308103
  • Fix for being unable to bundle if the game had saved while bundling
  • Wilba will now transform from her Werewilba form upon resurrecting
  • Mini signs won’t fail to deploy if the mouse is on a object when the character goes to place it.
  • Remapped controls should save properly again.
  • Flytraps won’t crash the game for Wormwood now
  • Flytraps won’t attack wormwood for carrying vegetables now.
  • Werewilba can't equip a backpack now.
Hotfix -308440
  • Known seeds will now grant Wormwood sanity boost like random seeds
  • Wormwood can only use Poop, Guano and Buckets-o-poop to heal. And the bucket gets more than one use. No more unintended Ash-strats.
  • Fixed crash when trying to drop equipped item in zoomed interface with controller.
  • Fix for potential crash when harvesting drying rack
  • Wormwoods planted seeds won’t crash the game when hit by a ground pound
  • Fix a rare assert when Wilba sometimes transformed back from wereform
  • Fixed potential assert with rainbow jelly migration.
  • Fixed the non random seed placer
  • No more seeds will spawn at 0,0,0 when Wormwoods plants them
  • Fixed a tuber tree crash
  • Fixed tumbleweed disappearing at the world edge.

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